Police forces are under scrutiny for how they search children
Lincolnshire Police carried out 17 strip searches on children in just over four years, a new report has revealed.It comes as the Children’s Commissioner has raised concerns about how searches are conducted of children in police custody.
The force says that seven of these was due to urgency and risk of harm to the subjects; in the other, a parent was in custody but refused to be present for the search.15 were carried out in custody, having been detained under Section 23 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and taken to custody or were searched in custody after arrest.
The Childen’s Commissioner recently analysed forces across England and Wales and found that 2,847 strip searches on youngsters between eight and 17 were carried out between 2018 and mid-2022. It also raised concerns about those conducted in police vehicles, schools and other inappropriate locations, and those with officers of a different gender being present.
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