No terror arrests in 101,000 stop-searches

No-one stopped and searched by British police under controversial anti-terror powers was arrested for a terrorism-related offence, figures showed today.

A total of 101,248 stops and searches were made under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in 2009/10, but only one in every 200 led to an arrest and none of these were terror-related, the figures released by the Home Office showed.