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Division · motion

Stop and Search

S4M-09557 · decided 02 Apr 2014 · lodged by McInnes, Alison · session S4
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Carried 62/39
That the Parliament notes that Police Scotland carried out 519,213 stop and searches across Scotland between April and December 2013; understands that the use of this tactic in Scotland has increased dramatically under the current administration and that, in 2010, the comparable rate per capita was approximately four times higher than in England and Wales; notes that, in the same year, 500 children aged 10 and under were stopped and searched, and that three quarters of all searches were conducted on a non-statutory basis, without any suspicion that the subject was involved in criminal activity and therefore dependent on acquiring verbal consent; understands that, in these cases, subjects are told little, or nothing, about their rights; believes that transparent and rigorous recording procedures are not in place to measure basic information, such as how many times any one person is stopped; notes that such shortcomings have led to Alan Miller, the Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, to describe the practice as "largely unregulated and unaccountable”; considers that this must be rectified to ensure that the system of stop and search is transparent and not open to abuses, including harassment and the falsification of figures; recognises that the repeated targeting of individuals based on broad criteria such as age can lead to a negative relationship with the police that is damaging to community relations, and further believes that it is essential that recording best practice is used for stop and search in Scotland to enable public scrutiny of whether the use of the tactic, which is a useful part of the policing toolkit if applied properly, is effective, appropriate and fair.

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