Scotland Yard is strip-searching hundreds of children a year, according to analysis that will revive concerns about the force’s treatment of minors in the wake of the Child Q case.
Officers in London have strip-searched between 500 and 800 children each year between 2018 and 2021, research shows. Between 100 and 200 had “intimate parts” exposed in the process, according to an analysis for The Conversation online network.
