Sunday, November 13, 2011

Met commissioner says stop and search must be used in a smarter way

3:25 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

Bernard Hogan-Howe

the police authority said: "We need to target people who have been convicted of knife crime and gun"

The new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police announced the key and exchange rate policy research, saying the force had to use the powers in a "smarter" way.

Bernard Hogan-Howe

, which appear in the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) for the first time, was challenged by the widespread use of stop and search by the strength of London and the fears who were angry communities in areas such as Tottenham, who saw the riots last month.

Hogan-Howe, who officially took power on September 26, seemed to decide at a hearing today that the policy must change.

entry

Commissioner - which established the matrix operation against weapons in Liverpool, while head of the Merseyside Police force - said powers of stop and search are important for the police, but in December This year, the Met should be used in a manner more specific.

"There are changes that can be made in their use," he said. "Our goal in the future more people who have been convicted of crimes with guns and knives. We need to ensure they are directed to when they are in the streets and not just the realization of generic research and stop. "
  • Hogan-Howe said he was confident that Londoners are the details to carry weapons or knives, and added that what was needed was a massive publicity campaign to ensure the population of 8 million Membership in the capital knew they could a phone number to report a person with a weapon. "This can not be that difficult," he said.
  • "We need to establish the mechanism by which we enter the public mind that if they play a number that can tell you are carrying a knife, what car you drive, and we'll do the rest .
"We must move away from research in a field of research to a person, and stop attacking people who do not have to be taken into account."

Question from Jenny Jones, Green Party representative on the MPA, where the audience is likely to see these changes in place, Hogan-Howe, said in December.

Jones said that in his meetings in Tottenham, north London, the widespread use of stop and search had been cited as a reason why so many people were angry. The AMP has also been said that the review followed by monitoring during the period before and during the riots was to examine whether the operation target repression seen theft and robbery - two of which are on the rise in London - using stop and search, had played a role in exacerbating tensions in some urban areas.


0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive

Blogger Template created with Artisteer.