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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.

From:
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, Independent Office for Police Conduct and College of Policing
Published
24 May 2021
Last updated
21 May 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Report on the Criminal Justice Alliance’s super-complaint - Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and independent community scrutiny of stop and search

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

Report on the Criminal Justice Alliance’s super-complaint - Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and independent community scrutiny of stop and search

PDF, 1.8 MB, 172 pages

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More harm than good: CJA super-complaint

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Annex 1: Supporting statements /comments

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Annex 2: Supporting Research Report

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Details

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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Responses to the super-complaint from the Criminal Justice Alliance

Updates to this page

Published 24 May 2021
Last updated 21 May 2024 + show all updates

  1. 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.

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

  3. This super complaint is now eligible to investigate. The text in the details area has been updated to reflect this change.

  4. First published.

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