Two Met officers dismissed for gross misconduct after strip-search of black schoolgirl
by Ben Quinn from World news | The Guardian on (#6Y8CJ)
Disciplinary hearing finds police officers' search of Child Q, 15, was disproportionate and humiliating
Two police officers who were involved in the strip-search of a black teenager at her school have been dismissed after they were found to have committed gross misconduct.
The search at a school in Hackney, east London, was disproportionate, inappropriate and unnecessary" and made the girl, known as Child Q, feel degraded and humiliated, a panel concluded at the end of a four-week misconduct hearing.
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