Find out your rights if you are stopped and searched by the police. 

• Why do the police stop and search people?
• What is a 'stop and search'?
• Why me?
• Where could they stop and search me?
• How will they search me?
• What happens next?
• What do I have to do?
• How can I complain if I need to?

Find out more

You can:

• download the Stop and search leaflet  54kb
• visit the stop and search information on the Association of Police Authorities' website which includes advice in other languages.