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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Joe Steen

School policing overhauled in Hackney after Child Q strip-searching scandal

The role of police officers in Hackney’s schools is to be overhauled, four years after the Child Q strip-searching scandal.

The changes aim to address serious concerns about such officers’ conduct after a Black 15-year-old Hackney girl (‘Child Q’) was wrongly accused of drug possession and strip-searched while at her school on 3 December 2020.

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