Recommendation, Stop and search, Brent - Metropolitan Police, June 2018

Shortly before midnight on 28 June 2018 officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) carried out a stop and search on the driver of a vehicle that was parked in a residential area of Brent, north west London. Footage from the officers’ body worn video show the officers approached the man to determine whether the car was registered to him and if he was insured. An officer then informed the man he would be searched for weapons and he was placed in handcuffs while both he and his car were searched. The man was then moved to the police van for a more thorough search of his shoes and trousers to be carried out. The officers did not find any weapons and removed the man from handcuffs at 12.12am. During our investigation we reviewed body worn video footage from six officers, the paperwork the officers completed after the incident, the …