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Lord Paddick (Non-Afl)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 6 May 2025

Debate

Police: Stop and Search

Contribution

My Lords, as the Minister said, stop and search is a valuable tool in taking weapons off our streets, but Home Office figures show that 86% of police stop and search is on suspicion of possession-only drug offences, and you are four times more likely to be stopped and searched if you are black than if you are white, even though Home Office research concludes: “It is not clear from the evidence whether ethnicity is a predictor of violent offending”. What can the Government do to get the police to carry out more stop and search on violent criminals?

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