UK: Parliamentary Joint Human Rights Committee report: Terrorism Act 2000 (Remedial) Order 2011: Stop and Search without Reasonable Suspicion (pdf): Changes required to Stop and Search law to prevent further breaches of human rights, warns
UK: Parliamentary Joint Human Rights Committee report: Terrorism Act 2000 (Remedial) Order 2011: Stop and Search without Reasonable Suspicion (pdf): Changes required to Stop and Search law to prevent further breaches of human rights, warns Committee. The Chair said: “We believe it needs to be more tightly circumscribed, and it needs tougher legal safeguards if further breaches of human rights are to be avoided.” It recommends:
“Require the officer authorising stop and search without reasonable suspicion to have a reasonable basis for his or her belief that the authorisation is needed, and to provide an explanation; – prevent the renewal of authorisations other than on the basis of new or additional information, or a fresh assessment of the original intelligence that the threat remains immediate and credible; and – require prior judicial authorisation for this power to stop and search to be available to the police.”