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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rosie Shead

Child Q: Officer who strip searched girl thought she was ‘doing the right thing’

The girl, 15, was strip searched by Metropolitan Police officers after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Archive)

A Metropolitan Police officer who strip searched a 15-year-old schoolgirl thought she was “doing the right thing”, a misconduct panel has heard.

The girl, known as Child Q, was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, on December 3 2020 after her school wrongly suspected her of carrying cannabis.

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