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Constitutional limits and the crisis of police stop and search powers in Nigeria: Between legality and practice

One of the most controversial aspects of democratic policing has been police stop and search powers; they are controversial because they are in tension with the imperatives of policing and constitutional rights.The purpose of this study was to examine residual case-law limits and the practical challenges faced by the police when exercising the power to search, and to determine whether the police use this power in accordance with constitutional and statutory limitations.The study used a convergent mixed-methods socio-legal design which combines doctrinal analysis of relevant judicial authoritie…