Ministers will not scrap 'reasonable grounds' stop and search rule

Government has ‘no plans’ to drop rule that officers must have reasonable grounds to suspect wrongdoingThe government has ruled out changing stop and search rules to allow police to use the power without reasonable grounds to suspect wrongdoing, while saying they want to “reduce bureaucracy” over such operations.The statement from the junior Home Office minister Nick Hurd follows the revelation in the Guardian that police have been in talks with advisers to the home secre