Get involved in improving stop and search

We do not underestimate the impact stop and search has on communities and individuals. We know that to maintain public confidence in its use, the power must be used in a correct and effective manner.

Community engagement

It's important to understand the impact stop and search has on communities and individuals. We do this through community engagement, scrutiny and community accountability.

Measuring the effect of stop and search

We publish stop and search data regularly so that we can be transparent about how stop and search is used, what is monitored and what is recorded. View our stop and search data.

How to get involved

Ride Along Scheme

The Ride Along scheme offers members of the public the opportunity to accompany our officers on patrol and experience first hand how stop and search may be used. The scheme enables two-way learning and helps create greater understanding and closeness between the police and the public.

Find out more about the Ride Along scheme and how to apply. 

Police Encounter Panels (PEPs)

The involvement and empowerment of London’s communities is essential to the success of policing in London, and an important part is local monitoring of stop and search activity.

At a borough level, stop and search is monitored by local independent community monitoring groups whose role is to:

• hold their police to account
• scrutinise the operational use of stop and search
• provide local communities with a voice into their local police to communicate their experiences of street encounters

The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) supports these groups to ensure that stop and search monitoring remains effective at a borough level. For more information on how to get involved in community monitoring of stop and search, email the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

The Met has set up Police Encounter Panels (PEPs) to allow communities the opportunity to give feedback on a broad range of policing encounters. The purpose of PEPs is to improve trust and confidence through community review of Body Worn Video.

As part of the Met’s commitment to increase accountability to the public and to improving the quality of its encounters, the information associated with your stop and search or police encounter (including, where applicable, body worn video footage) may be subject to review by public reference groups. In line with this we welcome feedback, contact us online or by post.