{"id":453707,"date":"2025-09-26T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/453707\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:24:13","slug":"stop-and-search-powers-in-place-across-two-areas-of-birmingham-overnight-as-police-investigate-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/453707\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop and search powers in place across two areas of Birmingham overnight as police investigate &#8216;shooting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/advice\/advice-and-information\/st-s\/stop-and-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police <\/a>announced that stop and search powers are in place in parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washwood Heath and Ward End<\/a> this evening and overnight following serious incidents being investigated in the area &#8211; including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firearms discharge <\/a>in Ward End Park Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Section 60 powers allow police to stop and search people &#8220;without the need to have reasonable grounds&#8221; and will be in place between 6pm today (Friday) until 4am tomorrow (Saturday).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f0971b31-2c5f-4e34-babf-9dd347477809.jpg\"   alt=\"Section 60 powers in parts of Washwood Heath and Ward End\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Section 60 powers in parts of Washwood Heath and Ward End<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the force said: &#8220;As always, our main focus is on keeping everyone safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll continue to have an increased presence in the area to offer reassurance to the local community. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police announced that stop and search powers are in place in parts of Washwood Heath and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-453707","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-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115272710379252426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453707","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=453707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}