Police Custody and Stop and Search: Body Searches
Commons · Question 20027 · Tabled 13 Dec 2024 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Marsha De Cordova
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing data on whether illicit objects were found during strip searches (a) in police custody and (b) during police stop and searches by (
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 23 Dec 2024
Strip search is one of the most intrusive powers available to the police. Its use must be fair, respectful, without unlawful discrimination, and transparent. The Government is committed to introducing new legal safeguards around strip searching children.A...