October 04, 2021 | Policing Themes, Operations and Investigations
Reference: F-2021-02992
Request
Request 1
How many people have been stopped and search in Northern Ireland from January 2019-September 2021?
Request 2
On how many occasions was anything found in these searches carried out?
Request 3
How many people were arrested when these searches were carried out?
Request 4
How many of these people that were stopped and searched by the PSNI were Catholics?
Request 5
How many of these people that were stopped and searched by the PSNI were Protestants?
Request 6
On what grounds do police identify someone as under suspicion to be stopped and searched?
Request 7
How many people who were stopped and searched have appealed or made a complaint towards the
PSNI after being stopped and searched? (from January 2019-September 2021?)
Request 8
How many of these complaints came from the catholic community and how many complaints came
from the protestant community? (from January 2019-September 2021?)
Request 9
On how many occasions has it been found that someone was unlawfully stopped and searched?
Request 10
On how many occasions has a complaint been upheld by someone who was stopped and searched?
Request 11
How many of these came from the catholic community and how many came from the protestant
community?
Request 12
How many stop and searched have been carried out in each policing district? (Derry and Strabane,
Belfast City, East Belfast, North Belfast. South Belfast, West Belfast, Newry and Armagh, Mid Ulster
and Fermanagh and Omagh)
Request 13
How many were vehicle only searches? How many were stop and question? (from January 2019-September 2021?)
Request 14
On how many occasions were those people that had vehicle only searched carried out or stop and
question have had past criminal convictions? (from January 2019-September 2021?)