Lincolnshire Police

How many searches do police do?

April 2017 – March 2018

The police conducted 2,114 stop and searches under PACE Section 1 across the area covered by Lincolnshire Police.

This was a reduction of 19% from the previous year.

There were 2 stop and searches under Section 60 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act, a power which doesn’t require individual reasonable suspicion.

April 2016 – March 2017

The police conducted 2,601 stop and searches under PACE Section 1 across the area covered by Lincolnshire Police.

This was a reduction of 29% from the previous year.

There were 1 stop and searches under Section 60 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act, a power which doesn’t require individual reasonable suspicion.

This was a reduction of 99% from the previous year.

Stop and account

Lincolnshire Police record stop and accounts.

Lincolnshire is one of only nine police forces in England and Wales that record stop and accounts.

In 2013/14, a total of 1,314 recorded stop and accounts where carried out across Lincolnshire. Of these:

• 1,257 were of whites
• 8 were of blacks
• 6 were of Asians
• 8 were of people from mixed backgrounds
• 1 was of someone from a Chinese or other background

The numbers of accounts of those from non-white backgrounds are too low to provide any meaningful figures on stop and account disproportionality.

What are searches targeted at?

Target	Proportion of searches
Drugs	64%
Stolen property	20%
Offensive weapons	8%
Going equipped	4%
Other	3%
Firearms	1%
Criminal damage	<1%