Two Metropolitan police officers who were involved in the strip-search of a black teenager at her school have been found to have committed gross misconduct.
The search was “disproportionate, inappropriate and unnecessary” and made Child Q feel degraded and humiliated, a panel found at the end of a four-week misconduct hearing.
However, the panel found that race was not a factor in the police officers’ decisions to subject the teenager to the search, and nor was she treated as an adult.
A third police officer who was involved in the strip-search in December 2020 was found to have committed a lesser offence of misconduct.
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