Should police be given greater stop and search powers?

We ask people in Birmingham

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00:00Coming from somewhere rural like Scarborough, we don't really have a stop-and-search.

00:06I imagine we're in Birmingham city centre today that it's more prominent in the larger cities.

00:10I don't have a great opinion on it because I don't know how it affects people day-to-day.

00:14I've never been stop-and-searched. Is it necessary? I don't know.

00:18If I'm honest, I'd struggle to answer it because I've never experienced it.

00:21I've never seen it happen. I'm not sure what they're using it for. I'm not affected by it.

00:28For this question, I think training should be a priority in these cases

00:34because sometimes they can get really aggressive but with no reason

00:38and they can get some extra punishment for that.

00:41I think training for them would be the most important thing.

00:45I don't think they should go too brutal as well because no one likes being, for example,

00:50random checked for how they look like or something like it.

00:54But I think some more studies and training would be the answer for that.