Policing and Police Power

POLICING AND POLICE
POWER

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
(b) Integration of stop and search with intelligence led policing.................................................5
(c) Recommendations and developments for improvement of stop and search practices.185....7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
The stop and search tactic is a right given to the police officers under section 1 of the
PACE Act introduced in year 1984. This strategy was initially intended to reduce the rate of
crimes and increase the safeguarding of the public. This was initially very effective in increasing
the crime detection rate by the police and helped in reducing crimes but after the launch of
section 60 Criminal Justice and Public order Act in 1994, the increase in the misuse of the stop
and search right increased drastically. This report will evaluate the shift in statistics that are
related to the stop and search cases in the period of past 25 years and also highlight the different
sections of public of UK that has been affected by it. In the further section, the report will
highlight that how the stop and search tactic can be adopted or integrated with the stop and
search strategy adopted by the police department. In the last section of this report, the
recommendations regarding the improvement in the implementation of the stop and search action
by the UK Police will be made and the developments that have already been done will be
discussed. Lastly, an appropriate conclusion summarizing all the key facts will be presented in
the report.
MAIN BODY
Police is a representative body which tends to focus on enforcing new law. Policing tends
to include array of activities in various different situation. Policing is referred to as the
enforcement of regulations or various arrangement by effectively maintaining law and order.
Police is responsible for enforcing law, maintaining public order, detecting and investigating
several criminal activities ( (Murray and et.al., 2020)). Police power is referred to as the capacity
of the states in order to regulate the behaviour and also enforce various order within the specific
territory which helps in better treatment of the morals, general welfare, heath and safety, etc.
Stop and search is referred to as the policing practice in order to stop a person in order to search
for prohibited items, weapons and drugs (McCandless and et.al., 2016). The stop and search
tends to take place under section 1 of Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984. Search and stop
is done in order to search individuals for things like weapons, stolen property, drugs, etc. The
powers of the Wales and England police is largely defined by the statue law who in turn has
reasonable grounds to stop and search people if they think they are in the possession of
prohibited item. Stop and search is considered

Since the year 1995, per head of the population within England and Wales, has been recorded for
stops and searches for the Asian people which tends to have remained between 1.5 and 2.5 times
for white people. On the other hand, for black people it has been between 4 and 8 times the rate
against white people. The statistics shows that, members of the ethnic group and black members
in turn tends to have stopped and searched more when compared with the white people. It has
been examined, 277378 stop and search incidents in Wales and England in fiscal year 2017-18 at
a rate of 5 incidents per 1000 individuals (Stop and search. 2019). It has come down from 23 per
1000 individuals in the year 2009-10. The rates of the stop and search in turn has gradually
declined for various ethnic group since the year 2009-10. In the year 2017-18, there was 3 stop
and searches for 1000 white people as compared to the 29 stop and searches for 1000 black
people. Black people were 9.5 times more likely to be stop and searched as compared to the
white people. It has been investigated that, approximately 17% of the stop and search tends to
result in arrest. In the year 2017-18, under section 60 of Criminal Justice And Public Order Act,
where senior police officer authorise search for weapons has tended to increased to 2500.