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<p>The requested data are published each year in Home Office statistical releases. For reference, the table shows the number of stops and searches of persons conducted between (a) 2007-08 and 2011-12 under sections 44 and 47A of the Terrorism Act 2000 by police forces in Great Britain, and (b) 2008-09 and 2011-12 under section 43 of the Terrorism Act 2000 by the Metropolitan Police Service.</p><p>Provisional data for 2012-13 are scheduled for publication on 12 September 2013 in the next edition of “Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes and stops and searches, Great Britain”, available via:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/counter-terrorism-statistics</p><p><table><thead><tr><td valign="top"> Stopsand searches of persons 1 under sections 44/47aand 43 of the Terrorism Act: 2007-08 to2011-12 2 <br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"> Numbers <br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" /><td valign="top"> Sections44/47A 3,4 <br /></td><td valign="top"> Section43 5 <br /></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">2007-08<br /></td><td valign="top">188,566<br /></td><td valign="top">n/a<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">2008-09<br /></td><td valign="top">255,680<br /></td><td valign="top">1,601<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">2009-10<br /></td><td valign="top">10102,504<br /></td><td valign="top">1,229<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">2010-11<br /></td><td valign="top">119,744<br /></td><td valign="top">1,154<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">2011-12<br /></td><td valign="top">0<br /></td><td valign="top">819<br /></td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td valign="top">n/a= Data notavailable.<br />1Excludes 'vehicle-only'searches.<br />2Data for all years may be revised in future editions of“Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 andsubsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes and stops andsearches”.<br />3Includes figures from police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and theBritish TransportPolice.<br />4All s44 powers were formally replaced with s47A powers, which have asignificantly higher threshold for authorisation than s44 searches, inMarch 2011. There has, as yet, been no use of stop and search powersunders47A.<br />5Searches conducted by the Metropolitan Police Serviceonly.<br /></td></tr></tfoot></table></p> |