The report covering England and Wales included almost 3,000 strip-search cases highlighting racial and gender disparities among children searched. Safeguarding concerns were also raised by the children's commissioner for England.
Children as young as eight are being strip-searched by police officers, according to a report which detailed almost 3,000 searches of minors in England and Wales over four years.
The report found"ethnic disproportionality", with black children six times more likely to be strip-searched compared to the national population; white children were half as likely to be searched. Children's commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, demanded the report which showed 2,847 strip-searches of youngsters between eight and 17 took place between 2018 and mid-2022 across England andThe research showed 52% of strip-searches took place without an appropriate adult present, which is required by law except in situations of"urgency".
One per cent of the searches occurred"within public view", with some taking place in police vehicles and schools, a few even in takeaways and amusement parks. However, location was not recorded in 45% of cases - criticised as"poor quality of record-keeping" by Dame Rachel., a black schoolgirl on her period wrongly suspected by police of carrying cannabis.
The 15-year-old was searched in the school's medical room by two female officers without teachers present in 2020.
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