Showing 15 results for ‘stop and search ’

This Commons Library briefing paper discusses police stop and search powers. It outlines a recent history of their reform and available evidence on their effectiveness at reducing and detecting crime.

Impartial analysis of some of the key issues that parliamentarians will have to address in the new Parliament

Police forces are no longer expected to follow voluntary guidance on 'no-suspicion' searches.

Knife crime has been on the rise in England and Wales over the past few years...

The following provides background for the debate on a motion relating to the twentieth anniversary of the Macpherson Report

A Westminster Hall debate on Effect of police stop and search powers on BAME communities is scheduled for Wednesday 23 May 2018 at 9.30am. The Member leading the debate is Naz Shah MP.

This Insight looks at the proposal for a new order to help prevent knife crime and how people from Black ethnic groups may be more affected.

This Commons Library briefing paper discusses the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities and provides related statistical and policy analysis.

This is a report on the House of Commons Committee Stage of the Protection of Freedoms Bill. It complements Research Paper 11/20 prepared for the Commons Second Reading.

A general debate on Serious violence has been scheduled for 15 May 2019.

This Insight explains what nitrous oxide is and how its use as a recreational drug is currently policed.

This briefing paper is prepared for the Second Reading of the Psychoactive Substances Bill on 19 October 2015.

The Bill would amend the law governing the taking, retention and destruction of fingerprints and DNA data from persons arrested for, charged with or convicted of criminal offences. It would reduce the requirements on the police to record information following a stop and search. It would introduce new 'go' orders for suspected perpetrators of domestic violence, which could mean excluding them from their homes in order to protect the victim. The Bill would also, in effect, extend new injunctions for gang-related violence to 14-18 year olds, and require courts to issue a Parenting Order where a child under 16 had breached an Anti-social Behaviour Order. It would require wheel clamping companies to be licensed, and create a new offence of possessing an authorised mobile phone in a prison. It also creates a new offence of preventing a person under 18 from gaining unauthorised access to air weapons.

This briefing examines the available statistics on terrorism since 2001 in Great Britain.

This commons library briefing paper introduces a series on police powers.