Met police chief rejects calls to reduce stop-and-search powers

Controversial tactic has reduced violent crime, Cressida Dick tells London assembly The 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. "I 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 ... we don't need to have rea...