Shreya was speaking at an all party parliamentary group in parliament and was reading through his notes beforehand. This was considered to be suspicious activity.

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According to the Home Secretary, stop and search has been misused, representing an “enormous waste of police time” which is also “hugely damaging to the relationship between the police and the public”.

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On one of the 15 times Piers got stopped and searched that month, he was on his way to a youth parliament meeting with a Chief Constable. When the officers searching him found that out, they instantly changed their tune and offered him a lift to the meeting.

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At present, police can stop someone if they have reasonable grounds to suspect they are carrying illegal drugs, a weapon, stolen property or something which could be used to commit a crime, such as a crowbar. Legally, this is based on Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 which allows a police officer to stop and search a person without suspicion.

However, according to the campaign group Liberty, Section 60 stops and searches can only take place in a specific area which has been authorised by a senior police officer, when they believe that violence has occurred or is about to occur, and where it is necessary to prevent it or search people for a weapon if one was involved in the incident.