Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan is progressing plans to grant gardaí stronger “stop-and-search powers”, despite a report commissioned by his department showing they do little to combat crime. The ...

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If we have reasonable suspicions that you might be carrying something illegal or something which may be used in a crime, using stop and search enables us to search you without having to arrest you.