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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Michael Howie

Met inspector will have to green-light strip searches in two London boroughs in wake of Child Q uproar

People demonstrate outside Stoke Newington Police Station (Stefan Rousseau/PA) (Picture: PA Wire)

Prior permission from a police inspector will be needed in two London boroughs before any child can be strip-searched, according to measures introduced following the Child Q scandal.

The Metropolitan Police said it is introducing a pilot across Hackney and Tower Hamlets where an inspector will need to give approval before a strip-search takes place.

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