Police watchdog: ethnic minorities need protection from unfair stop and search

IOPC condemns stops based on stereotypes and racial bias' and cites case of teenager reportedly stopped 60 times

Police abuse of their stop and search powers is so serious that black people need protecting" from stereotyping and racial biases, the police watchdog said, as it revealed allegations one child was stopped 60 times.

The Guardian understands the force concerned was the Metropolitan police which is alleged to have stopped the teenager so often he was left traumatised. He was sometimes searched multiple times in the same day over two years, starting in 2018 when he was aged 14.