Police watchdog crackdown on child strip-searches by LeahMahon_
Protesters in Hackney following outrage over the strip search of Child Q earlier this year
The schoolgirl was found to have been a victim of adultification bias after a safeguarding review into her ordeal. TheIt brings the total number of official probes into child strip-searches to five, which includes another 15-year-old girl in a cell in December 2022 and another child in a separate incident early 2022.
“Given the apparent delay in some of these cases being referred to us, we will now work with the MPS to review a sample of complaints that have not been referred to us, to establish whether the process is working as it should.
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