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Watchdog issues recommendations to Met over strip-searching children

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The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been issued with a raft of recommendations from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) amid concerns over the strip-searching of children.
The Met has been issued with a raft of recommendations over strip-searching children. Picture: Met Police
The Met has been issued with a raft of recommendations over strip-searching children. Picture: Met Police

The move follows a safeguarding scandal that emerged in March when a 15-year-old girl in Hackney, known as Child Q, was strip-searched by police at school while on her period, after being wrongly accused of possessing cannabis.

A total of 11 referrals around strip-searches have been made to the watchdog this year by the Met, and two will be independently investigated, the IOPC has announced.

These two cases both involve 16-year-old boys. The IOPC understands they were strip-searched in custody with no appropriate adult present. One was at Ilford police station in January 2020 and another at Bethnal Green police station in October of the same year.

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