The police under the shot in London searched for more than 600 children during a two-year period, most of them were black boys, according to new data released Monday.
British Commissioner for children, Rachel de Souza, said he was “very surprised” by numbers after getting it from metropolitan police.
De Souza’s request came after the British police were forced to apologize in March for the “Child Q” case, which had triggered an investigation of the big mistakes into four officers.
The 15 -year -old black school was studied by female officers in 2020 after being mistakenly suspected of carrying marijuana, even though they realized he was menstruating.
He was searched without the right “adult” gift, and no adult was present in 23 percent of the cases explored by De Souza.
In total, 650 minors aged 10-17 years were sought by Met officers between 2018 and 2020, he found.
More than 95 percent are boys, and 58 percent of 650 are described by officers as black.
De Souza said he was “very concerned” on ethnic imbalances, and said that children Q might be part of “greater systemic problems around the protection of children” in Met.
The numbers have increased sharply from year to year, he said, and showed that a large number of children “became the target of disturbing practices and trauma every year”.
London troops have been rocked in recent years by a series of incidents involving officers, including last year, when a member of the diplomatic protection team was jailed for kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
The crisis of public trust in the police saw that Cressida Dick resigned as Met Commissioner in February.
Responding to De Souza’s findings, Met said that he had institutionalized the changes “to ensure that children were subject to an intrusion search for appropriate and respectful”.
Some children may be “vulnerable exploitation victims” by drug gangsters and criminals, that conceded.
Mayor London Sadiq Khan doubled his criticism of Met after slamming troops over the Q Child case and other incidents.
That is “very alarming” that so many body search occurs without adults, said a spokesman Khan.
“And there are still more serious problems with regard to disproportionality and the use of stopping and looking for a light black boy,” said the spokesman.
