Roberts, Joe
Dame Rachel later requested strip-search figures from the Met which, when reported last August, showed more than 600 children underwent ‘intrusive and traumatising’ searches over two years, with black boys disproportionately targeted.
Her latest report revealed a total of 2,847 strip-searches of children aged between eight and 17 took place between 2018 and mid-2022.
The vast majority of these were boys (95%), and about 38% were black.
Black children were up to six times more likely to be strip-searched when compared with national population figures, in what was described as a ‘pronounced and deeply concerning ethnic disproportionality’...