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Met officers ‘committed gross misconduct’ in strip-searching black girl at school

Disciplinary hearing finds two police officers’ search of 15-year-old at school was disproportionate and humiliating

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.

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