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 use of discontinue and search in tackling rising knife crime. On Tuesday, and Cressida Dick revealed she was encouraging her officers to use the tactic and was determined to fight the insight that it was discriminatory,despite warnings that any increase in discontinue and search would further alienate black and minority ethnic communities.
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Source: theguardian.com