Police minister defends plan to extend stop-and-search

Kit Malthouse, the police minister, said body-worn cameras would help minimise chances of power abuses by police. Photograph: Mark Thomas/REX/ShutterstockThe police minister, Kit Malthouse, has insisted that a new wave of stop-and-search operations should not increase community tensions as the government unveiled a series of anti-crime measures.Both Boris Johnson, the prime minister, and Priti Patel, the home secretary, announced in separate comment articles in Sunday newspapers a lifting of res