A black schoolgirl was “demeaned” and felt “physically violated” when she was strip searched at school by police while on her period after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis, a misconduct hearing for the three Metropolitan Police officers involved has heard.
The girl, who was 15 years old at the time, will not being giving evidence at the three-week south-east London tribunal, “because of the psychological effects that this strip search has had on her”, the panel heard.
