Birmingham officers have temporary powers to detain and search someone without the reasonable grounds that are normally required.
"We're going to lock down Dale End", the police in Birmingham told us.
Currently the officers here have special temporary powers, known as section 60, that allow them free reign to temporarily detain and search someone without the reasonable grounds that are normally required. Twenty-three-year-old Leonard Menka grew up in Peckham, south London, and is now studying for his Masters in Birmingham.He was regularly stopped and searched as a teenager, once on his own doorstep. He stopped counting how many times he's been stopped long ago. He has never committed a crime.
We met a rapper who calls himself R Rose making a drill music video in Eastside Park and later again in Dale End.He described to me how a close friend was knifed recently and he had to hold him while they waited for help.
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