National Black Police Association boss calls for more stop and search

 

Sgt Keith Jarrett, the out-going president of the National Black Police Association (NBPA) this month called for more ethnically discriminatory policing through the police abuse of stop and search tactics. Jarrett hailed this as a compulsory approach to reducing violent knife and gun enabled crime affecting the African community in Britain. He went on to claim that it was necessary to increase the regularity of the already over used policy and that the move was something requested by the community itself.

He told the Observer newspaper; “From the return that I am getting from a lot of black people, they want to stop these killings, these knife crimes, and if it means their sons and daughters are going to be inconvenienced by being stopped by the police, so be it. I'm hoping we go down that road. I am going to be pressing him [Blair] to increase stop-and-search. It's not going to go down very well with my audience, many of whom are going to be black. We have talked about disproportionate use of stop-and-search in the past, but what I am proposing is quite the reverse. The black community is telling me that we have to have a look at this."

The NBPA were quick to distance themselves from the comments of their president and reiterated their objection to the unjust over use of stop and search of the African community. Recent Home Office statistics revealed that African people were six times more likely to be stopped than those belonging to the ethnic majority population.