A militant Muslim jihadist in London, yesterday
It appears that because the London Police are stopping and searching black and Asian people at an alarming rate (nothing new there), in order to “balance the statistics”, they need to stop and search vast quantities of white folk too! To balance the books….
“Whilst arrests for other crime have followed searches under the section, none of the many thousands of searches has ever resulted in a conviction for a terrorism offence. Its utility has been questioned publicly and privately by senior Metropolitan police staff with wide experience of terrorism policing,” said Carlile.
“Whilst arrests for other crime have followed searches under the section, none of the many thousands of searches has ever resulted in a conviction for a terrorism offence. Its utility has been questioned publicly and privately by senior Metropolitan police staff with wide experience of terrorism policing,” said Carlile.
He added that such searches were stopping between 8,000-10,000 people a month.
None of the many thousands of searches had ever led to a conviction for a terrorist offence, he said. He noted, too, that the damage done to community relations was “undoubtedly considerable”.
Examples of poor, or unnecessary use, of section 44 abounded. “I have evidence of cases where the person stopped is so obviously far from any known terrorism profile that, realistically, there is not the slightest possibility of him/her being a terrorist, and no other feature to justify the stop.”
We are going to hell in a hand cart
OH proudly displays the wrong copy of a Section 44 handed to him by a thick ginger copper recently