Two police officers who conducted the “humiliating” strip-search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl committed gross misconduct, a panel has found. Misconduct has been proven in case of a third police officer, after the girl, known as Child Q, was searched at her school in Hackney, east London, in December 2020. Child Q, who was wrongly suspected...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 A black schoolgirl who was strip-searched by Metropolitan Police officers was told she “might be arrested” if she refused to comply, a misconduct panel has heard. The girl, known as Child Q, was strip-searched at her...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 A school staff member who called the police over a black pupil she wrongly suspected of possessing cannabis did not expect an intimate search to be performed, a gross misconduct panel has been told. The deputy...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police in her school in 2020 A schoolgirl was “demeaned” and “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police while on her period. She was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis, a misconduct hearing for the three Metropolitan Police officers involved has heard....