{"id":164068,"date":"2025-06-06T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164068\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:27:08","slug":"section-60-powers-in-place-following-west-bromwich-disorder-with-six-arrested-and-weapons-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164068\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 60 powers in place following West Bromwich disorder with &#8216;six arrested&#8217; and &#8216;weapons recovered&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> has put a section 60 (stop and search) order in place in a large area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/west-bromwich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Bromwich<\/a> following disorder in the town.<\/p>\n<p>The disorder took place on the evening of June 4 and June 5. Six people have been arrested so far and a number of weapons recovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The order gives police the ability to stop and search people without &#8220;reasonable grounds&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Richard Boulter, of West Bromwich Police, said: \u201cWe don\u2019t use these powers lightly, but we will use all our powers to ensure the safety of people in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have increased patrols and uniformed officers in the area today and over the coming days to offer reassurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The order came into effect this morning (June 6) and is expected to be in place until 10pm tonight.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police has been approached for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police has put a section 60 (stop and search) order in place in a large area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,12608,16,15,17299],"class_list":{"0":"post-164068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sandwell","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-bromwich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114638778895460332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}