@Edent Now they just have to formulaically claim 'reasonable grounds' ("reports of someone matching your description in this area behaving suspiciously" is the usual framing given, with recorded instances of this claim later being proven a deliberate lie), or have a blanket search permission over the area - London generally has these being extended over its entire area on a rolling basis, iirc. I think the new law is referred to as S60, although I don't recall of what - not been involved in tracking this stuff much the last 5/10 years. Basically the police started agitating to get S44 back soon as they lost it, and they were broadly successful within a couple of years.