Mr. Nick Glynn:

The important questions relate to scrutiny and oversight. What are police officers doing with those stop-and-search powers? When are they using them? Who are they using them on? The police have all of that data or they have the ability to collect it, and it should be shared publicly because they should have nothing to hide about how they use those powers. To give credit to the police in England and Wales, much of that data is collected and shared publicly. That is a good way of starting an effective conversation around scrutiny and oversight and stop-and-search powers with the public as well as with the police leaders.

Body-worn cameras are here to stay. I do not think we can turn the clock back on those. They have a function in scrutiny and oversight, but there are lots of barriers to accessing the body-worn footage where those stop and search powers have been used. I refer to whether the camera has been activated and whether it is activated early enough before an interaction starts. A great deal of detailed work needs doing there to make body-worn cameras part of an effective tool in terms of scrutiny and oversight of police powers.