Jack Dromey MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Policing, responding to the Home Secretary’s published stop and search data, said:

“For years we pressed Theresa May to act on mounting public concern over stop and search, an essential tool in fighting crime but a power that, if abused, can undermine community confidence in the police. It is welcome that there is now recognition of the importance of acting on intelligence and carrying the community with you. It is also right that the statistics are published so that the public know and the police can constantly work at getting the balance right between proper use and abuse.”