Source · IOPC Learning Case

Recommendation, Stop and search, Romford - Metropolitan Police, April 2019

Metropolitan Police Service Ref: 2019/118695 Recommended 21 Aug 2020 Response due 16 Oct 2020

Custody and detention Discrimination Use of force and armed policing

On 22 April 2019, two plain clothed officers from the Metropolitan Police Service stopped two boys, one aged seventeen and one aged fourteen. The officers attempted to search the teenagers and one left the scene, followed by one of the officers. The teenager ran home and entered his house. One officer followed him to his house and detained him a short time later. The other teenager remained at the scene of the stop and struggled with the remaining police officer. …

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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.