ABSTRACT
This chapter explores manifestations of terrorist profiling that may be classifiable as being closer towards the ‘informal’ end on the terrorist profiling spectrum. It examines manifestations of informal terrorist profiling, and assesses the exercise of police powers, as the basis to demonstrate that some uses of police powers may be capable of being classified as an example of informal terrorist profiling. The legal framework providing for the use of stop and search powers can be characterised as being broad due to the extensive array of statutes affording the power to stop and search. A common feature of stop and search powers in England and Wales is that law enforcement officers are given a high degree of discretion as to when they may exercise the power to stop and search. The inclusion of reasonable suspicion is to curtail and limit the circumstances in which a law enforcement officer can justifiably stop and search an individual and/their vehicle.
