NSW police minister defends strip-searching children after new data revealed

NSW Police Minister David Elliott has defended the strip-searching of girls after figures showed more than 100 girls have been searched in the past three years.

NSW Minister for Police and Emergency Services David Elliott. Source: AAP

The NSW police minister has defended the strip-searching of children and teenagers after new figures showed more than 100 young girls were strip-searched by police in the past three years.

Police Minister David Elliott was responding to figures obtained by the Redfern Legal Centre showing 122 girls aged between 12 and 17 have been strip-searched by NSW Police since 2016.

"I've got young children and if I thought that the police felt they were at risk of doing something wrong, I'd want them strip-searched," he told reporters on Wednesday.

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