Investigation launched against four Met Police officers who strip-searched black schoolgirl
All four Metropolitan Police officers who strip-searched a 15-year-old black schoolgirl while she was on her period are now being investigated for gross misconduct, it has been revealed.
It had been claimed that the girl, known as Child Q, smelled strongly of cannabis and may have been in possession of drugs.
So police were called to her school and subjected her to an intimate body search without any other adults present.
The incident took place almost two years ago but only came to light in March this year after a safeguarding report was published. This Site has previously reported on the incident here.
The Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review found that the strip search should never have happened, was unjustified, and racism “was likely to have been an influencing factor”.
“Four constables have now been advised that they are being investigated for potential breaches of the police standards of professional behaviour at the level of gross misconduct,” the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) said.
However, it added that this “does not necessarily mean that disciplinary proceedings will follow”.
“We are looking at complaints that her mother was not given the opportunity to be present during the strip search, and that there was no other appropriate adult present,” it added.
“We are also considering whether the child’s ethnicity played a part in the officers’ decision to strip search her.”
If the officers are found to have breached policing standards, they could be dismissed from their jobs.
Source: Investigation launched against four Met Police officers who strip-searched black schoolgirl
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This is gross. Four pervs in uniform groping up a teenage girl of fifteen is absolutely disgusting & if you think I’m overstating it, then it’s probably because you have never been a fifteen year old girl with a tampon inside her and have no insight into her perspective. The officers were out of order and should have been removed from active duty without pay. I can’t imagine how she coped with this assault.