Source · IOPC Learning Case

Recommendation, Stop and search, Brent - Metropolitan Police, June 2018

Metropolitan Police Service Ref: 2018/109983 and 2018/112898 Recommended 21 Aug 2020 Response due 16 Oct 2020

Discrimination

Shortly before midnight on 28 June 2018 officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) carried out a stop and search on the driver of a vehicle that was parked in a residential area of Brent, north west London. Footage from the officers’ body worn video show the officers approached the man to determine whether the car was registered to him and if he was insured. An officer then informed the man he would be searched for weapons and he was …

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Recommendations

1 total

Recommendation 1

The IOPC completed five investigations involving the stop and search of Black men by MPS officers. The following 11 learning recommendations are made under paragraph 28A of Schedule 3 of the Police Reform Act and are informed by the collective evidence gathered in these investigations. Each recommendation is cross-referenced with the investigations that informed it. Read our recommendations. Do you accept the recommendation? Yes

Addressed to: Metropolitan Police

Linked bodies: Metropolitan Police Service

Accepted

Force response

Accepted action: The Metropolitan Police Service responded in a letter that covers all 11 learning recommendations.