Four Metropolitan Police officers will face gross misconduct notices after a Black teenager was strip-searched. Known as Child Q, the 15-year-old was wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.
She was strip-searched by four police officers in her east London school in 2020. Protests and condemnation erupted after it emerged the teenager was searched without another adult present and in the knowledge that she was menstruating.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed that four Met officers have been served with gross misconduct notices in connection with its ongoing investigation into complaints that Child Q was inappropriately strip-searched. Previously it was the case that the IOPC was investigating three police officers for misconduct.
