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Scottish ministers are to ban police from using stop and search without legal cause after an independent inquiry found it was of "questionable lawfulness and legitimacy".
Indeed, a late amendment to the bill currently before parliament would strengthen those powers by allowing examining officers to download the contents of mobile phones, laptops and other electronic devices, a practice of questionable lawfulness at present.
Ministers agreed on Thursday to set up a new statutory code on police search powers and to discuss the need for specific powers to search children for alcohol after being warned by Scott that "non-statutory stop and search lacks any legal framework and is of questionable lawfulness and legitimacy, with poor accountability".
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Its lawfulness is being considered".
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