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Research and action for fair and accountable policing

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We gather stories, experiences and thoughts from around the UK to give a voice and support to real people.

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We gather stories, experiences and thoughts from around the UK to give a voice and support to real people.

Research

Working with facts, figures, and real experiences to gather insight into stop and search and its effects

Section 60 factsheet

Our factsheet provides the law, the history, and the statistics behind the police power

Advice

Providing assistance for individual stop and search cases, seeking remedies for grievances against police injustice

Stop and search: A guide for parents and children, plus short film

Our guide focuses on keeping children as safe as possible during interactions with the police

Projects

Where you can view the latest StopWatch projects and campaigns into various aspects of policing

Judicial review of the Best Use of Stop and Search scheme

StopWatch and Liberty launch legal challenge over the home secretary's decision to drop all safeguards on section 60 search tactics from the Best Use of Stop and Search (BUSS) scheme, announced on 27 July 2021 as part of the UK government’s ‘Beating Crime Plan’.

Featured projects

Girls and young women's research project

A national research project speaking to young women about their experiences of stop and search.

The gangs matrix

A handy explainer on the gangs matrix – what it is, how it works, why it is harmful, and what to do if you find yourself on it

gangs matrix

Judicial review of the Best Use of Stop and Search scheme

StopWatch and Liberty launch legal challenge over the home secretary's decision to drop all safeguards on section 60 search tactics from the Best Use of Stop and Search (BUSS) scheme, announced on 27 July 2021 as part of the UK government’s ‘Beating Crime Plan’.

Section 60 stop Notting Hill Carnival

RAW

The Rights and Wellbeing RAW summit heralds the launch of an exciting project aimed at providing resources, group workshops and individual support to equip individuals with rights education to reduce the harm of police encounters. RAW will also address the broader impacts of stop and search, providing therapeutic support to help people process and deal with the impacts of stop and search and the after-effects.

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