A leading human rights charity has called for the Metropolitan Police’s powers to be “rolled back” in response to the vast number of children who have been strip-searched by officers without an adult present.
It comes as data obtained from Scotland Yard by the Children’s Commissioner showed some 650 children aged 10 to 17 were strip-searched by Met officers between 2018 and 2020. Of this number, 58 per cent were described by the officer as being Black, and more than 95 per cent were boys.
