Teaming up with Met boss Cressida Dick, Amber Rudd said her “purpose is simple: to take as many offensive weapons, knives, guns, acid and harmful drugs out of the pockets of criminals as possible.”
She added: “This includes using stop and search to confront the use of acid as an appalling weapon of violence.”
But Ms Rudd faces a tricky political juggling act with the measures as ex-Home Sec Theresa May slashed stop and search from a million a year to fewer than 400,000. ...
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