Black children across England and Wales four times more likely to be strip searched
THE Children’s Commissioner has called for a “much higher threshold” before police can strip-search minors as black children remain four times more likely to undergo the “humiliating and traumatising” procedure.
There were 3,368 strip searches of children carried out by 44 police forces, including British Transport Police, between January 2018 and June 2023, according to police data provided to Dame Rachel de Souza.
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