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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