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Met officers facing sack over school strip-search of Child Q revealed

Constables Kristina Linge, Victoria Wray and Rafal Szmydynski will appear before a three-week gross misconduct hearing starting on June 2

Evening Standard

School policing overhauled in Hackney after Child Q strip-searching scandal

The role of police officers in Hackney’s schools is to be overhauled, four years after the Child Q strip-searching scandal.

Evening Standard

Child strip-searched every 14 hours by police in England and Wales, report finds

Black children remain four times as likely to be strip-searched in new data uncovered following the case of schoolgirl Child Q

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Disciplinary hearing date for Child Q strip-search officers still to be set

Gross misconduct case over December 2020 incident that could lead to Met sackings may not be heard until 2025

The Guardian - UK

Child Q: Three Met police officers to face misconduct hearings over strip search of black schoolgirl

The IOPC has ruled officers have a case to answer for gross misconduct after search of 15-year-old in Hackney school

Evening Standard

Child Q: Met Police officers face disciplinary action over Black teenager strip-search

Met bosses have also been told by the IOPC that they should consider writing formal letters of apology to Child Q and her mother

The Independent UK

Child Q breaks silence on police strip-search to ask: ‘Why was it me?’

The 15-year-old school pupil adds: “Things need to change. Even I can see that’.”

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Braverman’s call to ramp up stop and search ‘would cause further alienation’

Jim Gamble said police should not be ‘driven by a political agenda about being tough on crime’.

The Independent UK

Black girls three times more likely to undergo invasive strip-search by Met police

Data analysed by Liberty Investigates shows almost half of girls subjected to strip-searches between 2017 and 2022 were Black

The Guardian - UK

Worst police forces for strip searching children as young as eight ranked

The strip searches have been carried out by police forces across the country. The Met tops the list with Hertfordshire, Thames Valley, Merseryside and Essex close behind

Daily Mirror

Children as young as eight strip-searched by police, report finds

Black youths are disproportionately more likely to be strip-searched than their white peers, report finds

Evening Standard

Met Police officers investigated after strip search of 15-year-old girl

An investigation by the police watchdog began last year following public concern over the case of Child Q

Evening Standard

A placard on the street said all we need to know about the violation of Child Q

The protest against the police abuse of a teenage girl at her school showed that people refuse to tolerate black children being seen as less than human, says teacher and writer Lola Okolosie

The Guardian - UK

Labour ‘to act over child strip-searches and police vetting failures’

Yvette Cooper sets out policies at party conference and attacks ‘unworkable and unethical’ Rwanda deportation plan

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The Conversation

Why are strip-searches not a matter of public debate in the UK?

The recent story of Child Q, the 15-year-old black schoolgirl who was accused by her teachers of smelling of cannabis and subjected to a strip-search at her school in Hackney, London, without an appropriate adult present, has rightly elicited outrage.

The Guardian - UK

Schools in England advised to assess risk of strip-search before calling police

Guidance issued after 15-year-old black girl known as Child Q was strip-searched by female police officers in 2020

Evening Standard

What does the Metropolitan Police being put under ‘Special Measures’ mean and why has it happened?

Everything you need to know about the Met Police’s ‘Special Measures’

Daily Mirror

Met Police placed under special measures by watchdog after 'serious' failures

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services initiated the process as the Met Police did not manage to eradicate a cause of concern. It follows a number of scandals including the strip search of a 15-year-old girl known as Child Q.

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The Guardian - UK

Met refers eight more strip-searches of children to police watchdog

After outrage over case of Child Q, force asks IOPC to examine incidents involving children aged 14-17

Evening Standard

New Met police chief must commit to root and branch reform, demands Sadiq Khan

In a major speech, the Mayor said he owed it to victims such as Sarah Everard and Stephen Lawrence to deliver major change at Scotland Yard

The Independent UK

Child Q: Four Met Police officers investigated after strip-searching Black schoolgirl

Teenager was searched by police who knew she was menstruating and wrongly suspected her of carrying cannabis

Wales Online

Four Met Police officers face gross misconduct after 'Child Q' strip-searched

The youngster was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

The Independent UK

Child Q: Four Met Police officers investigated after strip-searching Black schoolgirl - OLD

The officers have each been served with gross misconduct notices in relation to the incident which happened in 2020.

The Conversation

Whiteness is at the heart of racism in Britain – so why is it portrayed as a Black problem?

In 2020, two police officers in Hackney strip-searched a 15-year-old Black girl at her school. Police conducted the search of this child, known as Child Q, without the consent of her parents, without an appropriate adult present (despite this being required by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984), and…

The Guardian - UK

‘I got fed up with my students ending up in prison or dead’: the teacher fighting to end school exclusions

Appalled by the damage of zero-tolerance behaviour policies that see ever more pupils thrown out of class, and often education, Zahra Bei founded a campaign focusing on racial justice

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