Met Police apologise for wrongly strip-searching a ‘traumatised’ black school girl on her period after report finds that racism was an influencing factor
The Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review, published in March, was conducted by City & Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership following the incident at the end of 2020.
It said police arrived at the school after being called by teachers, who told the review they had been concerned the teenager had drugs in her possession because she smelt of cannabis. She was taken to the medical room and strip searched by two female officers, while teachers remained outside. During the ordeal her intimate body parts were exposed and she was made to take off her sanitary towel, bend over spread her legs and use her hands to spread her buttocks whilst coughing, according to the review.Her family strongly believe the strip search was a racist incident "due to her being black and her extreme large head of locks".
It reads: "The disproportionate decision to strip search Child Q is unlikely to have been disconnected from her ethnicity and her background as a child growing up on an estate in Hackney."
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