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Factsheets
We've crunched the facts and stats on stop and search into these handy factsheets:
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31 March 2019
StopWatch and Release response to HMICFRS’s 2019 2020 policing inspection programme
A joint response with drugs policy experts Release UK to the consultation on the policing inspection programme and framework run by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services.
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28 February 2019
Home Affairs Select Committee: The Macpherson Report: Twenty Years On inquiry – February 2019
StopWatch UK responds to the inquiry examining the progress made since the publication of the seminal report.
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31 October 2018
Home Office: Extending stop and search powers – October 2018
The UK Government's post-consultation response to the Home Office proposal to extend stop and search powers to cover offences relating to unmanned aircraft (drones), laser pointers and corrosive substances.
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15 August 2018
Home Affairs Select Committee: Serious Violence Strategy inquiry – August 2018
This is StopWatch UK's response to the Serious Violence Strategy inquiry
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14 July 2014
Briefing: Schedule 7 examinations and detentions at ports
Schedule 7 is a counter-terrorism power used at ports and airports and the widest ranging of all of the UK's stop and search powers.