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Stop and search rates for different ethnic groups in England and Wales.
The police can stop and question you at any time - they can search you depending on the situation.
This Policy Framework provides the requirements and guidance for prisons and staff on searching of the person, cells, areas and vehicles.
Employers might monitor workers, but if the monitoring involves taking data, images or drug testing they have to do this in a way that's legal and fair
Find out who can search against the name of an owner of land or registered mortgages and how to do it (practice guide 74).
Your rights and security searches, body scans and privacy rules if you're disabled or taking medication aboard aircraft
How to make an official search and information on their purpose and effect (practice guide 12).
HM Land Registry information about searches, fees and forms.
Guidance explaining the powers schools have to screen and search pupils, and to confiscate items they find.
This good practice guide provides advice to local authorities and personal searchers on providing access to property information held by local…
The policing minister writes to police chiefs to set out the importance of harnessing innovative technologies to support police in preventing and solving crimes.
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