Home secretary echoes Cressida Dick’s endorsement of controversial tactic but cautions over indiscriminate useThe home secretary,Amber Rudd, has backed the Metropolitan police commissioner over the utilize of end and search in tackling rising knife crime in a move that marks a change in tone since Theresa May was in the Home Office.
Rudd made clear she was in favour of targeted utilize of end and search, and after Cressida Dick revealed she was encouraging her officers to utilize the tactic and was determined to fight the insight that it was discriminatory,despite warnings that any increase in end and search would further alienate black and minority ethnic communities.
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Source: theguardian.com