June 26, 2025Jun 26 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 PA Media Thu 26 Jun 2025 14.24 BST Share 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. They required her to lift up her sanitary towel in case she was stashing her dope there. When she did so there was no cannabis.
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