MORE than 2,000 stop-searches were carried out by police in Barnsley in a year.
Figures released by South Yorkshire Police - from April 2025 to March 2026 - reveal drugs, weapons and stolen items were found.
A total of 2,067 were carried out across the borough in the period.
A report from Chief Superintendent Simon Wanless, who is Barnsley’s district commander, said: “There is strong support from communities when stop and search is used correctly.
“The force uses body-worn video and the force supports independent external scrutiny processes.
“It was found that 92.4 per cent of stop-searches had ‘reasonable grounds’ recorded.
“This is a huge improvement from 2021 when only 76 per cent of records were found to have reasonable grounds.”
