Greater Manchester Police Will be Accused of Racism after These Figures are Published
The number of ‘Asians’ stopped by police in Greater Manchester have soared, according to new figures. The figures, which misconstrue ‘Asians’ with Islamics, were revealed in Chief Constable Peter Fahy’s `diversity monitoring data’ report presented to the Greater Manchester Police.
Figures show the number of ‘Asian’ people who were stopped went up, but the proportion of those stopped from black or mixed ethnic backgrounds fell.
Officers in GMP carried out 119,730 so-called ‘stop and account’ procedures last year, a 54 percent rise on the previous year. They also carried out 48,815 `stop and search’ actions, up 12 percent.
In the same period, they stopped 185 suspects under the Terrorism Act — compared to just eight in the previous year — because of the nationwide crackdown following the Glasgow airport bomb attack.
Assistant Chief Constable Rob Taylor said: “Stop and search and stop and account are vital tools in our fight against crime.
“They have been used in high-profile operations which have seen real results such as a massive decrease in gang-related shootings.
“We are confident that our use of the powers is intelligence-led. One in five stop and searches resulted in either an arrest, caution or warning.”
The report analyses the proportion of people from ethnic minorities subjected to these procedures as, historically, they have been over-represented.
It says 5,139 Asian or British Asian people were asked to account for themselves, a rise of 69 percent on the previous year. The group formed 4.3 percent of all stop and accounts, up from 3.9 percent.
Although there were rises in the number of people of mixed or black backgrounds asked to account for themselves last year, these groups formed a smaller proportion of the total stopped compared to the previous year.
White people formed an increasing proportion of those asked to account for themselves, according to the report.
