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| Met officers’ strip-search of black girl at school was gross misconduct, panel finds | |
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| Disciplinary hearing finds two police officers’ search of Child Q, 15, was disproportionate and humiliating | |
| Two Metropolitan police officers who were involved in the strip-search of a black teenager at her school have been found to have committed gross misconduct. | Two Metropolitan police officers who were involved in the strip-search of a black teenager at her school have been found to have committed gross misconduct. |
| The search was “disproportionate, inappropriate and unnecessary” and made Child Q feel degraded and humiliated, a panel found at the end of a four-week misconduct hearing. | The search was “disproportionate, inappropriate and unnecessary” and made Child Q feel degraded and humiliated, a panel found at the end of a four-week misconduct hearing. |
| However, the panel found that race was not a factor in the police officers’ decisions to subject the teenager to the search, and nor was she treated as an adult. | However, the panel found that race was not a factor in the police officers’ decisions to subject the teenager to the search, and nor was she treated as an adult. |
| A third police officer who was involved in the strip-search in December 2020 was found to have committed a lesser offence of misconduct. | A third police officer who was involved in the strip-search in December 2020 was found to have committed a lesser offence of misconduct. |
| More details soon … | More details soon … |