Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 27 June 2005.
Is the Minister aware that it takes four minutes to fill in one of those forms, which means that it takes 20 minutes if a police officer is to stop a group of, say, five people? Does he agree that that 20 minutes is time away from policing the street, and is that not a great disincentive to the sort of active community policing that our constituencies need?