A quarter of those subject to intimate searches were aged between 10 and 15, the report adds.
Last week, the Independent Office for Police Conduct issued recommendations to the Met to ensure that a child’s welfare and safeguarding are a “are a primary consideration” when deciding whether to conduct a strip-search.
However, in response the latest findings, children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza, says that she remains “unconvinced that the Metropolitan Police is consistently considering children's welfare and wellbeing.”
Under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, an appropriate adult such as a parent, social worker, or volunteer must be present during the strip-search of a child, however, in 23 per cent of the cases included in the report, no such figure was confirmed to be present.
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