Police Powers Under PACE
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Police Powers Under PACE Certain police powers under the police and criminal evidence Act 1984 (PACE) were implemented on 1 January 1986. For provisions set out in section 5, 50 and 55 of the act, there is statutory requirement for chief officers of police to collect and publish statistics monitoring their use. These provisions cover stop ad searches of persons or vehicles, road checks and intimate searches of persons. Information giving the ethnic appearance of persons stopped and searched was published in January 2001 a publication under section 95 of the criminal justice act 1991. A search for one type of article may result in a different category of article being found. From April 1991 only one record need to be completed if a person is in a vehicle and both searched and the object and grounds for the search are the same. The powers to stop and search contained in section 1...


