• The Equality Duty
• Equality Information
• Easy to Read Information
• Disability Symbol User
• Welsh Language
• Hate Crime
• Human Rights
• Stop and Search
  • What is a stop and account?
  • What is a stop and search?
  • Where can searches be carried out?
  • Why might I be stopped and searched?
  • What isn't a stop and search?
  • Who can 'stop and search' you?
  • How should a stop and search be carried out?
  • What will I be asked to remove?
  • What is recorded and your right to a receipt
  • What can you do if you are unhappy about how you were treated?
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What is recorded and your right to a receipt

If you are searched and you are not arrested as a result, you have the right to a receipt, unless there are exceptional circumstances which make it impractical for the officer to make a record of the search.  The officer must record the following details:

• how you describe your ethnic background;
• the date, time and place where you were stopped and searched;
• why you were stopped and searched;
• the name and/or number of the officer carrying out the search; and
• what they were searching for.

You will be offered either a copy of the record if it was written down on a paper form, or an actual receipt if the record was made electronically or via the officer's radio.  The receipt can be used by you to request a paper or electronic copy of the full record from the police station that the officer was from within 3 months of the stop and search, or to make a complaint.

If you are searched but then arrested and taken to a police station, the officer must record details of the search on the custody record.  You have a right to receive a copy of the search record.

Separate records must be made for each person and vehicle searched, unless the reason for choosing to search you and your vehicle and what is being looked for are the same.