ONLY six officers in Britain’s biggest police force have been disciplined for misuse of stop and search powers since 2014 despite almost 5,000 complaints, new research reveals. 

In the last seven-year period, 4,917 complaints have been filed against London’s Metropolitan Police officers over the tactic, with the number more than doubling from 785 in 2019 to 1,744 last year. 

The figures, obtained through freedom of information requests and published today, show that the drastic increase has coincided with a significant rise in the number of stop and searches carried out, from 268,771 to 319,713 in the same period.