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Police powers procedures 2022/23: Section 60 signals lost in the noise
Little change in stop search data trends; importance of ethnic disparities downplayed
news
27.09.2023
StopWatch signs open letter in response to the Met's 'turnaround plan'
StopWatch, in coalition with Runnymede Trust and 24 other racial justice organisations, calls out Met commissioner Mark Rowley's 'A New Met for London' plan.
news
02.08.2023
Supreme court rule on police conduct law and dismiss appeal of officer who shot Jermaine Baker
Judges also call for clarity over police code of ethics
news
05.07.2023
New dashboard puts stop and search back on the map
Interactive tracker displays data for every police force in England and Wales
news
05.06.2023
Human rights groups raise alarm over new police powers
A coalition of human rights groups has raised concerns about the piloting of Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) which give new stop-and-search powers to police forces
news
19.04.2023
Overall fall in annual stop and searches hides other patterns in street policing operations
As the pandemic effect recedes, 2022 figures highlight something many minoritised communities knew at the time: the oppressive nature of lockdown policing
news
27.10.2022
What are the policy and social implications of Project Servator?
In the second of a series of articles on the little known policing tactic, Shaquille Scott-Davis explores the impact of Project Servator on our way of life
opinion
06.05.2022
What is Project Servator?
Shaquille Scott-Davis looks into the operations of a police patrol you may have noticed around a lot in the last 5 years, but probably know very little about
opinion
01.04.2022
Bedfordshire scrutiny panel changes hands
Chair Montell Neufville steps down after 5 years, cites successes of the system
opinion
18.02.2022
Stop and search, a young person's burden
New Home Office dataset shows rise in overall stop and searches, but masks a complex story of moral panic towards young people, especially of colour
news
18.11.2021
Police's terror search activity limited by COVID-19 threat
Falls in section 43 and Schedule 7 stops under the Terrorism Act 2000 caused by multiple lockdown measures imposed during pandemic outbreak
news
10.06.2021
Stop and searches increase 50% – racial disparity remains the same
New data finds Black people stopped and searched 9 times more than White people in England and Wales
news
27.10.2020