stop-and-search

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or pertaining to laws or policing practices, found in some jurisdictions, which permit a law enforcement officer to temporarily detain and search a member of the public based on the officer's suspicions.

Noun

 * 1) A police action of this type.
 * 2) * 1996 April 5, "The Baer Truth: It Was A Shameless Judicial Cave-in, New York Daily News (retrieved 20 August 2013) :
 * Read literally, he simply ruled that a cop made a bad collar, a stop-and-search without "reasonable suspicion."