Stop search scrutiny group

Thursday26 January 2017

Lloyd House Police HQ

Present:Police Temporary Inspector Ifty AHMED(IA) Samita DOAL (SD) , Desta HALL (DH) Sharda Ramdewor (SR)

Apologies: Councillor KOONER (CC)Noreen AKHTAR (NA)Makdoom CHISTI (MC),Manjit SINGH (MS), Soleman SAMUEL (SS)Desmond JADOO (DJ), Taher HUSSAIN (TH)

Topics / Action
1. / Apologies received from above. We were expecting 7 new members from Birmingham Metropolitan College but due to confusion over whether a risk assessment needed to be completed they could not attend. Hopefully this will be addressed in time for the next meeting. / Action: Inspector AHMED to make contact with Taher Hussain to ensure risk assessment issue is addressed.
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Items Discussed

Introductions and welcome from IA, no actions carried forward from last time
3 / I.A updated the group regarding concerns they had raised at previous two meetings regarding the standard of stop of search grounds was beginning to deteriorate. This has led to issue being raised at Stop and search GOLD and action plan was put in place to address concerns. This entailed bespoke inputs to city centre teams regarding ensuring grounds for stop and search improved.
Concerns were raised that disproportionality for black communities have increased in the city centre and at the same time outcomes have reduced considerably.
Inspector AHMED thanked the group for raising this issue which has led to a review and change in how stop search is being delivered in the city centre and the outcome and disproportionality rates had improved considerably during the last 4 months.
This was an excellent example of how stop and search scrutiny was provided timely advice and holding the police service to account.
4 / Sulaimaan Samuel’s continues to carry out school based inputs around stop and search and has trained four other facilitators who are delivering across the WMP.
5 / Dip sample completed and out of ten searches reviewed 9 met the standard and one was below standard. The officer concerned has been emailed.
6 / Both DH and SD agreed to carry out lay observations on a Friday evening in Handsworth. / Action: Inspector Ahmed to email Inspector Murrin to facilitate this.
7 / Date of Next Meeting:
Venue: Lloyd House Police HQ
23/03/17 – 2-4pm at Lloyd House
25/05/17 – 2-4pm at Lloyd House

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