STOP AND SEARCH PROCEDURES
Parliamentary excerpt
That this House recognises that stop and search powers are essential to the police in their fight to combat crime; reaffirms its support for recommendations 60 through to 63 of the Home Secretary's Action Plan published in March 1999; notes that these recommendations had the support of the official Opposition; recalls that the Action Plan was published in response to the recommendations of the Macpherson Inquiry into the events surrounding the murder of Stephen Lawrence; further notes that Lo...