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Helen William

Two Met Police officers sacked for gross misconduct in Child Q search

Two Met Police officers have been sacked (PA) - (PA Archive)

Two Metropolitan Police officers committed gross misconduct during the “disproportionate” and “humiliating” strip search of a 15-year-old black girl at school, who was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis.

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

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