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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Tobi Thomas

Met strip-searches of two 16-year-old boys to be investigated by IOPC

London Metropolitan police car on the street

Two more incidents involving the strip-search of children by the Metropolitan police will be investigated by its watchdog as the fallout from the Child Q case continues.

The investigations launched by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) both involve 16-year-old boys who are understood to have been strip-searched in custody in 2020 without an appropriate adult present: one at Ilford police station in January and the other at Bethnal Green police station in October.

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