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Operational note: MPA launch London wide roll out of Recommendation 61 - recording all police stops

81/04
15 November 2004

The London wide rollout of Recommendation 61 of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report will be launched by the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Metropolitan Police Service at 10.30am on Wednesday 17 November 2004 at 10 Dean Farrar Street, London SW1.

Recommendation 61 states that all police stops should be recorded by officers and a record of the stop given to the individual. At present only stops and searches are recorded.

Cindy Butts, Deputy Chair of the MPA, John Roberts, lead member of the MPA for Recommendation 61 and Sir Ian Blair, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service will lead the event.

Notes to editors

Filming facilities for Recommendation 61 will be available. Please contact Anna de Vries, MPS Directorate of Public Affairs: 020 7321 9056.

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