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Daily Mirror
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Dave Burke

Police carried out 2,800 strip searches on children as young as eight in last four years

More than 2,800 children were strip searched by police in four years, figures show.

A report by the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, found that the youngest child strip searched between 2018 and mid-2022 was just EIGHT.

More than a third were black boys, while black children were six times more likely to be strip searched, the study found.

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