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Stop and Search: Tamworth

Volume 473: debated on Monday 17 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals were found to be illegally carrying (a) weapons and (b) drugs during police stop and search procedures in Tamworth constituency in each of the last four years. (187860)

The available information held by the Ministry of Justice is given in the table for Staffordshire police force area, in which the Tamworth constituency is located.

Number of arrests following stops and searches of persons or vehicles in the Staffordshire police force area, under section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and other legislation1, by period.

Arrests made by reason for arrest

Offensive weapons

Firearms

Drugs

2002-03

151

15

479

2003-04

223

21

819

2004-05

276

23

942

2005-06

342

34

1,072

1 Includes searches for drugs and firearms under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and the Firearms Act 1968 respectively. Notes: 1. No stops and searches (in anticipation of violence) have been reported by the Staffordshire police force under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 during the periods given in the table. 2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.