Correspondence: Police super-complaints: police use of stop and search powers

Super-complaint from the Criminal Justice Alliance about the police’s use of ‘suspicion-less’ stop and searches and the scrutiny of all stop and search powers.

https://hmicfrs.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/publication-html/report-on-the-criminal-justice-alliances-stop-and-search-super-complaint

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https://hmicfrs.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/news-feed/police-must-apply-safeguards-and-improve-scrutiny-to-minimise-harm-when-using-stop-and-search/

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), the College of Policing and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) have published a report in response to the super-complaint submitted by the Criminal Justice Alliance.  This super-complaint is about the police’s use of section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, and the scrutiny of all stop and search powers. 

Following an investigation, we have made recommendations to chief constables, police and crime commissioners or equivalents, the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and the Home Office.

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A link to the press release that accompanied this report has been added.

The responses to this super-complaint from the NPCC, APCC and the Home Office were published today. We added a link to these responses to the content of this page.

Addition of the final super-complaint recommendation and action report. This is in PDF and HTML format.