Father ‘furious’ after daughter strip searched by police in front of glass door

It was the case of Child Q which prompted the children’s commissioner to conduct a report into the issue.

Data from the findings show that a child is strip searched every 14 hours, with police failing to record an appropriate adult in almost half of recent searches.

The report shows there were 3,368 strip searches of children between January 2018 and June 2023 in England and Wales – with 457 over the last 12 months of that period.

Between July 2022 and June 2023, an appropriate adult – usually a parent or guardian – could not be confirmed present in 39% of searches, while none was present in 6% of cases.

Black children are four times more likely to be searched, a slight change from the period covering 2018-22 when they were six times more likely.

Dame Rachel de Souza, who commissioned the report, says the figures are still “deeply concerning”.

She says strip searches are regularly occurring before an arrest, saying many are “taken off the street and stripped searched under suspicion”.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/father-furious-after-daughter-strip-searched-by-police-in-front-of-glass-door-13200002