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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Disciplinary hearing date for Child Q strip-search officers still to be set

People take part in a rally in solidarity with Child Q outside Hackney town hall in east London in March 2022
People take part in a rally in solidarity with Child Q outside Hackney town hall in east London in March 2022. Photograph: Sabrina Merolla/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

A date is still to be set for a disciplinary hearing that could result in three Metropolitan police officers being sacked for their alleged part in the strip-search of an innocent child in December 2020.

Child Q, 15, was strip-searched at her school in Hackney, east London, while menstruating, having been wrongly accused of possessing cannabis. It was an experience she found traumatising and which has been widely condemned.

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