POLICE MUST USE INTELLIGENCE LED APPROACH AND NOT RANDOM MUSLIM STOP & SEARCH

5.29.15pm GMT Thu 3rd Mar 2005

Commenting on the remarks made by Met Police Chief Sir Ian Blair in support of Hazel Blears comments over the disproportionate targeting of Muslims under Stop and Search powers, Liberal Democrat London Assembly policing spokesperson and member of the Met Police Authority, Lynne Featherstone, said:-

"If London's Muslim community previously only suspected that they were being targeted by police, today's comments by the Commissioner and those by Hazel Blears yesterday make it very clear they are.

"Rather than giving carte blanche to the police to stop and search anyone who the police think is a Muslim, the police should be taking a proper intelligence-led approach. Only then will the Muslim community have confidence in London's police, and only then will they be willing help the police in the war against terror."

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