- Reference: 2018/5217
- Question by: Siân Berry
- Meeting date: 20 December 2018
Thank you for your response to my question 2018/2554. According to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Revised Code C Code of Practice for the detention, treatment and questioning of persons by police officers, published in February 2017, strip and intimate searches are conducted to find concealed articles and “shall not be routinely carried out if there is no reason to suggest articles are concealed.” Could you outline the different safeguarding risks that you mentioned in response to my previous question that would cause a Metropolitan Police officer to conduct a PACE Code C strip search?