More than 3,000 children were strip-searched by police in a year, and more than a third were black, figures show.
There were 65,336 strip-searches carried out by 28 of 43 forces in England and Wales in the year to March, of which 5% (3,133) were carried out on 10 to 17-year-olds, according to data published for the first time on Thursday.
