STOP AND SEARCH
Stop & Search Powers
The activities undertaken throughout the workshops (e.g. role playing activities on different scenarios that could take place during a stop and search) have been considered effective by both staff and participants for several reasons:
They showed that individual response to stop and search affect the way in which the search is conducted the demonstrated that knowing their rights and responsibilities during a stop and search will increase young people’s confidence and decrease the fear or distrust they might feel.
It encouraged young people to see stop and search from police officers perspective.
Our Work
Our work has focused upon raising awareness and challenging the unlawful, unfair and disproportionate use of Stop and Search powers. We have worked in close partnership with the Safer Neighbourhood Team, who has funded the project to host a series of events in the community and to run workshops for young people.
The workshops we have devised focus mainly on the provision of accessible and easy-to-understand interactive multimedia presentations, along with highly effective role-play activities. These are designed specifically to educate and inform young people of their rights and responsibilities when being stopped and searched, to determine them to remain calm and cooperative and to understand how to make a complaint if they are subject to bad practice.
