Metropolitan police officers on a stop and search operation in south London. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA
The new Stop and Search figures are out today. The data shows that out of all the searches made under Section 44(1) and (2) of the Terrorism Act none resulted in arrests for terrorism offences and less than 1% resulted in arrests for other offences.
We ve extracted some of the data for you from the excel document the Home Office published today.
The data for searches made under terrorism legislation is broken down by police force and ethnicity for England and Wales between the financial year 2010-2011.
It shows that most searches made under terrorism legislation were conducted in London by the Metropolitan Police (9,913 out of 11,792).
It also shows that none of the searches made under terrorism legislation in Wales resulted in any arrests, with just 79 of all such searches resulting in arrests for other offences.
Stop and search has always been a controversial area.
In January 2009, the Government s anti-terror policy was thrown into turmoil after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that police who use Section 44 without grounds for suspicion are violating individual freedoms and acting illegally.
Until it was repealed in March last year, Section 44 allowed any police force authorised by the home secretary to randomly stop and search any person or vehicle on suspicion of terrorism. Section 47A took its place afterwards.
In addition to terrorism legislation, stops and searches are also performed under Section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. As Section 1 is the most general, it has recorded the most incidents: no less than 1,205,495 last financial year, or 94.42% of the total searchs.
While searches under Section 1 of PACE can be made by any officer, searches under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 need to have the authorisation of a more senior officer, because they usually involve suspicion of a serious violence.
Last year these amounted to 60,180.
Although considerably fewer than the more general Section 1 searches these were still almost six times the searches under terrorism legislation.
Furthermore as the graph below shows, stops and searches made under Section 1 of PACE are at their highest since 2001.
Section 60 searches have almost halved compared to the previous year and Section 44 searches are at their lowest since 2001.
Stops and searches in England and WalesSection 1Section 60Section 442001/022002/032003/042004/052005/062006/072007/082008/092009/102010/1103000006000009000001200000
Looking at the breakdown by ethnicity of arrests made following these searches, which were not necessarily made under the sections the searches were conducted, almost 5 times more white people were arrested on the whole than black people.
Still if we take individual sections into account, and as the graph below shows, under Section 60 a similar number of arrests were made for both white and black people, while arrests for asians amounted to half of this number; 505, 532 and 204 respectively.
Stop and search arrests England andWales, 2010-2011WhiteBlack (orBlack British)Asian (orAsian British)Chinese orOtherMixedNot statedSection 1Section 60Section 44020000400006000080000
It also needs to be noted that these figures are not proportional with population numbers and thus don t paint an accurate picture of the ethnic breakdown of arrests following stops and searches.
What else would you show with these numbers?
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Police force area
White
Black (or Black British)
Asian (or Asian British)
Chinese or Other
Mixed
Not Stated
Vehicle only search
Total
Cleveland 45 0 0 0 0 1 2 48 Durham 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 Northumbria 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 82 Cheshire 56 0 1 0 3 2 0 62 Cumbria 44 0 0 0 0 1 2 47 Greater Manchester 619 283 97 8 81 53 2 1143 Lancashire 462 7 38 2 13 7 2 531 Merseyside 1830 59 11 22 35 20 2 1979 Humberside 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 North Yorkshire 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 South Yorkshire 61 17 18 0 4 13 1 114 West Yorkshire 108 6 16 3 9 2 1 145 Derbyshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Leicestershire 113 18 62 0 8 10 8 219 Lincolnshire 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 Northamptonshire 28 3 0 1 2 0 0 34 Nottinghamshire 119 68 18 2 22 41 0 270 Staffordshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Warwickshire 12 0 8 2 0 0 0 22 West Mercia 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 West Midlands 62 101 93 3 18 42 0 319 Bedfordshire 75 25 12 3 10 17 1 143 Cambridgeshire 38 1 5 0 0 1 4 49 Essex 37 7 0 0 0 4 0 48 Hertfordshire 25 1 0 0 0 0 0 26 Norfolk 87 0 0 0 2 3 0 92 Suffolk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 London, City of 1 2 5 0 1 0 0 9 Metropolitan Police 14057 21713 11767 952 2343 2621 56 53509 Hampshire 94 1 0 0 0 1 1 97 Kent 10 1 0 0 0 3 0 14 Surrey 47 0 0 0 1 0 0 48 Sussex 98 17 3 0 1 4 0 123 Thames Valley 326 94 61 8 58 52 0 599 Avon and Somerset 15 42 0 0 10 34 0 101 Devon and Cornwall 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dorset 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gloucestershire 8 18 3 1 7 0 0 37 Wiltshire 38 1 0 0 0 2 0 41 Dyfed0Powys 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gwent 17 3 17 0 1 2 0 40 North Wales 102 0 1 0 2 5 3 113 South Wales 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 British Transport Police 295 296 58 5 45 84 0 783 WALES 125 4 18 0 3 7 3 160 ENGLAND 18666 22485 12218 1007 2628 2934 82 60020 ENGLAND AND WALES 19086 22785 12294 1012 2676 3025 85 60963
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