Thousands searched in UK under anti-terror rules

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London: More than 100,000 people were stopped and searched by police under counter-terrorism powers last year but none of them were arrested for terrorism-related offences, according to Home Office figures published yesterday.

The statistics show that 504 people out of the 101,248 searches were arrested for any offence an arrest rate of 0.5 per cent, compared with an average 10 per cent arrest rate for street searches under normal police powers. The figures prompted the former Conservative home affairs spokesman David Davis to call for the controversial policy to be scrapped.

Astonishing

"This astonishing fact of no terrorism-related arrests, let alone prosecutions or convictions, in over 100,000 stop and searches, demonstrates what a massively counter-productive policy this is," said Davis.
 
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