Source · IOPC Learning Case

Recommendation, Stop and search, Euston - Metropolitan Police Service, November 2019

Metropolitan Police Service Ref: 2019/128328 Recommended 21 Aug 2020 Response due 16 Oct 2020

Custody and detention Discrimination

On the afternoon of 17 November 2019, three cyclists were waiting at a red light on a busy, main road. One of the cyclists, a black man, was stopped by a police officer who advised him to move back behind the white line. The man and officer engaged in a conversation, in which the man informed the officer he had positioned his bicycle over the white line for his own safety. After a brief conversation, and after traffic began to …

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Recommendations

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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 Service

Linked bodies: Metropolitan Police Service

Accepted

Force response

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