Part of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - Committee (5th Day) – in the House of Lords at 5:30 pm on 3 November 2021.
My Lords, my noble friend the Minister did not disappoint me, because she mentioned the phrase “operational independence” for the police. Would she be entirely content if a local police commander decided that he or she was not going to have their officers do stop and search unless they thought it was absolutely essential?