A new strategy designed to improve officers’ knowledge on safeguarding children and improve young people’s trust in the force has been launched by the Metropolitan Police.
The Children’s Strategy, which is two years in the making, sets out 36 commitments for the force including improving training for tens of thousands of officers on issues including tackling the adultification of children, safeguarding and how vulnerabilities can increase young people’s risk of involvement in crime.
It comes in the wake of numerous scandals faced by the Met in recent years, including the case of Child Q in 2020 during which a then 15-year-old girl was strip-searched by officers at school while on her period and the publication of a damning report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) which found the force to be “failing victims of child sexual exploitation”.
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