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Comment: The Standard can today reveal that hundreds of children — some between the ages of 10 and 12 — have undergone full strip searches by the Metropolitan Police, where intimate parts can be exposed ESComment

which requires an inspector to give approval before a strip search can take place. But there is also a racial element at play.with Black people making up a third of those

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