{"id":69278,"date":"2018-11-29T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/29\/met-police-chief-rejects-calls-to-reduce-stop-and-search-powers\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:38:09","slug":"met-police-chief-rejects-calls-to-reduce-stop-and-search-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=69278","title":{"rendered":"Met police chief rejects calls to reduce stop-and-search powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial tactic has reduced violent crime, Cressida Dick tells London assemblyThe Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, has rejected calls to lower the level of suspicion needed for officers to carry out a stop and search, and claimed an increase in the use of the tactic has cut violent crime.\u201cI believe that the law, from our professional point of view, is strong and it is clear. We have strong powers and we would not want to go to a position where \u2026 we don\u2019t need to have reasonable grounds,\u201d Dick told the London assembly\u2019s police and crime committee. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2018\/nov\/29\/met-police-chief-rejects-calls-to-reduce-stop-and-search-powers\" target=\"_blank\">Met police chief rejects calls to reduce stop-and-search powers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial tactic has reduced violent crime, Cressida Dick tells London assemblyThe Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, has rejected calls to lower the level of suspicion needed for officers to carry out a stop and search, and claimed an increase in the use of the tactic has cut violent crime.\u201cI believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}