The Metropolitan Police has made a further eight voluntary referrals to the police watchdog involving strip searches of children by officers, in a development labelled “shocking and deeply disturbing” by London’s mayor.
The referrals relate to separate incidents, between December 2019 and March 2022, where children aged 14 to 17 were either strip searched by officers in custody or were subject to more intimate searches in the wider community, Scotland Yard said.
