Live Reporting

Ailsa Brown and Craig Hutchison

  1. Violent crime

    The chief constable says stop-and-search can be used to aid police officers in terms of the prevention of crime.

    Sir Stephen points to the huge reduction in violent crime and the carrying of weapons in the last five years.

  2. Marc Ellison
    Data journalist, BBC Scotland

    House says that if you divide number of stop searches in 2014 by number of officers, that means 1 officer did 0.8% of one search

    - What House doesn't mention is that ONE officer in Inverclyde in 2014 conducted 1,631 searches...

  3. On twitter

    Christopher Baigent: Scotland police never heard of backups? RTO & RPO people! It's important!

    Radical Scotland: House must go. Party politics is irrelevant. The man has been caught lying. He lied only to protect himself. #stopsearch

    Linda Murray: "Police Scotland assistant chief constable Wayne Mawson says the force lost 20,086 stop-search records because the wrong button was pressed." Sounds dodgy to me. #stopsearch

  4. No targets

    The chief constable says internally and externally, there are no targets on the volume of stop-and-search.

  5. Average week

    Under questioning from former policeman and independent MSP John Finnie, Sir Stephen says the average officer carries out 0.8% of a stop-and-search in an average week.

  6. "I'll check my vocabulary"

    Sir Stephen House

    Sir Stephen House says he has already apologised for misspeaking and says he will check his vocabulary.

  7. On twitter

    Feisty Female: Police Scotland getting a roasting by Justice Committee on stop and search. Their arrogance is astonishing.

    Andrew Learmouth: John Finnie suggesting that there weren't any real issues around Stop and Search until amalgamation of forces with Stephen House as CC

    Steven Dehn: Chief Constable doesn't think there is a particular concern over stop and search?

  8. 'Justified interest'

    Sir Stephen says he does not agree there is growing public concern about stop-and-search and a "justified interest" in the proper application of police powers.

  9. Data release concerns

    Marc Ellison
    Data journalist, BBC Scotland

    Should we be concerned that Police Scotland will use this as a precedent when they make less data under FOI?

  10. On twitter

    Scottish Lib Dems: Christine Grahame rightly points out that reasonable suspicion would be grounds for a statutory stop and search - no consensual needed #sp4

    Gerry D: Calum Steele is being knows full well the issue i stop and search, not statutory search. Also using one case to infer all searches is wrong.

  11. Stop-search figures

    Assistant chief constable Wayne Mawson talks through the figures given to the BBC. He says...

    • 356 - the total number of stop-and-searches

    • 69 - the number who were over the age of 12 and shouldn't have been in the data

    • 130 - the number that were consensual

    • 189 - the number that were legislative

  12. Single service

    Sir Stephen says: "Now we are a single service people pay a huge amount of attention to us."

  13. Civilian staff

    Ms Murray asks if the error arose due to the loss of civilian staff from Police Scotland.

    Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mawson says no, he does not think that at all.

  14. Marc Ellison
    Data journalist, BBC Scotland

    MSP Elaine Murray: How can we trust any data released by Police Scotland?

    Mawson nimbly dodges that question, and blames corruption of 20,086 stop-search records on a "computer programmer pressing the wrong button"

  15. Computer Programmer Error

    Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mawson says a computer programmer "pressed the wrong button" between May and July of last year, that led to the loss of results from that data.

    He says Police Scotland have been "working really hard" to try and recover the data and the "vast majority of those results are now back on the system".

  16. On twitter

    Gerry D: Police have powers to stop and search where they have reasonable cause to do so. No one is asking that it is 'never' done.

    Feisty Female: Watching Justice Committee - are there any Scots in the Scottish Police Force?

  17. Faith in data

    Labour MSP Elaine Murray asks how much credence can we put on any data coming out of Police Scotland.

  18. Marc Ellison
    Data journalist, BBC Scotland

    Police acknowledge "clunkiness" of their database + the emails released by commissioner yesterday show one fix made

    Extract

  19. On twitter

    Paddy Toner: These stop and search stats are incredible. The rate is higher than the NYPD's stop and search ratio. Madness.

    Ewan McQueen: Stop + search, taking away local policing, armed patrols on routine calls, criminalisation of football fans. I could go on...

  20. ANALYSIS

    Marc Ellison
    Data journalist, BBC Scotland

    Alison McInnes wasted no time in addressing Police Scotland's 'broken promise' to end consensual searches on children. "Trust in the police is ebbing fast," she said. An initially calm Sir Stephen House takes the significant step of admitting he made a mistake in Friday's meeting with the SPA when he apportioned blame to releasing "inaccurate" on command of info commissioner.

    But upon repeated grilling from McInnes, the police chief said: "I made a mistake. If I was hiding things we wouldn't be attending SPA meetings." This so far has been quite a different - a more unflinching and microscopic - examination than senior officers undertook at the hands of the SPA.

    • Marc Ellison requested the stop-and-search data on behalf of the BBC.