US EditionChild Q: Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct during strip search of 15-year-old schoolgirl
- A police disciplinary tribunal in South East London found PCs Kristina Linge and Rafal Szmydynski guilty of gross misconduct today over the 2020 strip search of a 15-year-old girl known as Child Q.
- The officers incorrectly suspected Child Q of carrying cannabis and did not adhere to required protective procedures, while PC Victoria Wray was determined to have engaged in misconduct, though not to the extent of gross misconduct.
- The search took place at a Hackney school when Child Q was removed from an exam and forced to expose intimate parts without an appropriate adult present, described as disproportionate and humiliating.
- Amanda Rowe, director of the police oversight body, stated that officers unjustly conducted a strip search on a vulnerable child, while Commander Kevin Southworth described the incident as deeply regrettable and extended apologies to Child Q and her family.
- The case sparked widespread public outrage and protests, caused lasting harm to Child Q's wellbeing, and damaged trust in policing, especially among Black communities across London.
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AlKhaleej TodayUK police officers sacked for ‘humiliating’ strip search of 15-year-old schoolgirl
LONDON, June 27 — Two UK police officers were dismissed on Thursday after a disciplinary hearing ruled they had committed gross misconduct during the “humiliating” strip search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl wrongly suspected of possessing cannabis. Officers searched “Child Q” at her school in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after teachers suspected her of carrying cannabis. She was made to remove her underwear and expose intimate body part…
Two London police officers were fired after ordering an unwarranted search of a 15-year-old black girl. The case triggered a wave of indignation in the United Kingdom.
Two police officers guilty of gross misconduct over strip-search of school girl
Two Met police officers have been found guilty of gross misconduct - after carrying out a strip search on a 15-year-old Black girl at her east London school. The disciplinary hearing found that the search of the girl - known as Child Q - had been "disproportionate, inappropriate and unnecessary".…
A disciplinary hearing was held: London police officers committed a serious mistake by imposing a full search on a 15-year-old girl, a case that caused a sharp shock in the United Kingdom
At the time of the incident, 15 years old, in 2020, the high school girl was in a menstrual period and had been wrongly accused of hiding cannabis by the police.
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