Member

I am grateful to the noble Lord opposite for setting out his amendment. He spoke about the large number of stop and searches with some precision, but he did not go on to set out the number of those searches that resulted in an arrest, charge or conviction. That is the kind of correlation we need to examine if he wants to justify suspicionless stop and search in particular as a useful tool for preventing very serious crimes. I would be interested in any information that noble Lords have about how many of these searches, particularly suspicionless searches, lead to, for example, a criminal charge. That is the kind of ratio the Committee ought to examine.