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(1)The Police Service of Scotland must ensure that, as soon as practicable after the end of each reporting year, information is published on how many times during the reporting year a search was carried out by a constable—
(a)of a person not in police custody, and
(b)otherwise than under the authority of a warrant expressly conferring a power of search.
(2)So far as practicable, the information is to disclose (in addition)—
(a)how many persons were searched on two or more occasions,
(b)the age and gender, and the ethnic and national origin, of the persons searched,
(c)the proportion of searches that resulted in—
(i)something being seized by a constable,
(ii)a case being reported to the procurator fiscal,
(d)the number of complaints made to the Police Service of Scotland about the carrying out of searches (or the manner in which they were carried out).
(3)In this section, “reporting year” means a yearly period ending on 31 March.
Commencement Information
I1S. 69 in force at 11.5.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/99, art. 2(e) (with art. 6)
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