Search questions

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Thank you, Toby. I wonder if you could take us a little bit further on this stop and search question. This clearly is historically an extremely important issue for all Londoners but particularly for African Caribbean communities and also, indeed, Bangladeshi communities in the East End. Now, this exercise, as you say, has shown some promise. Where is the MPS going with it from here?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Thank you, and I hope that what you've said will be taken as a pretty clear signal that the MPS has broken with the days in which stop and search was effectively used as a biased tactic against one part of our community and that that part of the community can now be reassured that under the new MPA we are never going to return to those days. The issue of stop and search really has been around in various versions for about three decades but it exercised the PCCGs considerably in particular parts of London. I wonder if you...