Black children in Britain are SIX times more likely to be strip-searched by ... trends now

Black children in Britain are SIX times more likely to be strip-searched by ... trends now
Black children in Britain are SIX times more likely to be strip-searched by ... trends now

Black children in Britain are SIX times more likely to be strip-searched by ... trends now

Black children in Britain are SIX times more likely to be strip-searched by police, 'disturbing' investigation finds Black children are six times more likely on average to be strip-searched by police Nearly 3,000 children as young as eight were strip-searched from 2018 to 2022 More than half of these were carried out without an appropriate adult present

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Black children are six times more likely to be strip-searched by police when compared with national population figures, an investigation has found.

Almost 3,000 children as young as eight were strip-searched between 2018 and mid-2022, according to research from the children’s commissioner.

Of the 2,487 searches, 38 per cent involved black children and more than half were carried out without an appropriate adult confirmed to be present. And in 45 per cent of cases officers failed to record the location of the strip search, with some

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