{"id":330743,"date":"2025-08-09T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330743\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:25:10","slug":"liverpool-police-given-extra-stop-and-search-powers-for-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330743\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool police given extra stop and search powers for city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Police have said they will use extra stop and search powers in Liverpool city centre.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Section 60 order &#8211; to run until 16:00 BST &#8211; is intended &#8220;not to stop people going about their lawful business but to deter crime or serious violence&#8221;, Merseyside Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The order gives police enhanced powers to search vehicles and seize dangerous items or face coverings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Merseyside Police has not stated why the order was being brought in, but protests and counter-demonstrations about the use of hotels to house asylum seekers were expected to take place in the city centre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have said they will use extra stop and search powers in Liverpool city centre. The Section 60&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114999271425244035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330743","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=330743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}