Body Searches: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 17226 · Tabled 2 Dec 2024 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Marsha De Cordova
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to tackle disproportionate use of full strip searches during stop and searches of (a) Black, (b) Asian and (c) other ethnic minority people.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 10 Dec 2024
Strip search is one of the most intrusive powers available to the police and its use must be fair, respectful and without unlawful discrimination. No one should be subject to the use of any police power based on their race or ethnicity. That is why the Go...