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Chief Constable Stephen Watson has mounted a robust defence of police stop and search powers - and vowed they would be used far more in the future.
The force ramped up its use of 'stop and search' following the fatal stabbing of three young men in Greater Manchester in just 16 days.
It gives police powers to search someone if there are 'reasonable grounds' to believe they have illegal drugs, a weapon, stolen goods or items like a crowbar which would be used to commit a crime.
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But Greater Manchester Police went further and also made a so-called 'section 60' order which allowed officers, for a limited time in a small area, to search people even without reasonable grounds for suspicion.
The move came following the fatal stabbings of Kennie Carter, 16, in Stretford, Alan Szelugowski, 17, in Clowes Park, Salford, and Dylan Keelan, 20, in Dukinfield.
The deaths prompted a string of arrests, with some of those detained as young as 13.
The latest figures available show that GMP has used stop and search powers far less frequently than other forces.
The force carried out 11,748 stop-searches in the year to March 2021 compared to 25,800 by West Midlands Police, the force with which GMP is most frequently compared, according to government figures.
Because of long-standing problems with GMP's new computer system, iOPS, no comparable figure for the year before has been released.
The power is controversial as the figures consistently show white people are far less likely to be stop-searched than black, Asian or mixed heritage people.
In a Q&A on BBC Radio Manchester today (Tuesday), Chief Constable Stephen Watson promised the force would be
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