The UK’s biggest police force has disciplined just six officers over the misuse of stop and search powers since 2014 – despite receiving almost 5,000 complaints, figures reveal. Some 4,917 allegations have been made about the Metropolitan Police’s use of the tactic in the last seven years, according to data obtained by the PA news agency under Freedom of Information laws. The number of complaints more than doubled from 786 in 2019 to 1,744 last year, with the number of searches carried out rising from 268,771 to 319,713 in the same period. Not a single complaint among 990 cases in 2020 was found proven when investigated by the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards.