Prior permission from a police inspector will be needed in two London boroughs before a child can be strip-searched under new measures introduced following the Child Q scandal
Now the force says it is starting a pilot across Hackney and Tower Hamlets to require an inspector to give approval before a strip-search takes place.
The search of Child Q, by female Metropolitan Police officers, took place without another adult present and in the knowledge that she was menstruating, a safeguarding report found.
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