The Home Secretary Priti Patel has lifted restrictions on police stop-and-search powers as part of a new initiative against violent crime in England and Wales.
Patel wrote to police forces in England and Wales, permanently lifting limitations on Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which enables them to stop people and search them for weapons.
The limitations were imposed in 2014 by then-Home Secretary Theresa May, who later became prime minister.
Mike Neville, a retired detective chief inspector who spent 28 years in the Metropolitan Police, told The Epoch Times, “The police’s hands were tied for political reasons by Theresa May because she thought she might get more votes from the black community and the end result was that more young black men were put at risk.”
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