This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Make it illegal for the police to conduct strip searches on children under 16
Young people are regularly being strip searched by the police. We think that this is breaking their human rights and is happening too often
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This is a link to a girl who got stripped search by police officers when she was 12 years old and It absolutely scared her and now she's 20 and she still can't get over it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37801760
This is just 1 example of strip searches by police but annually there is over 100s of under 16 getting stripped and searched.
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