Child Q: Officer who strip searched girl thought she was ‘doing the right thing’
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/hackney-london-metropolitan-police-met-scotland-yard-b1233168.html
Posted by ThatchersDirtyTaint
Child Q: Officer who strip searched girl thought she was ‘doing the right thing’
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/hackney-london-metropolitan-police-met-scotland-yard-b1233168.html
Posted by ThatchersDirtyTaint
25 Comments
>This involved the removal of the 15-year-old’s clothing including underwear, her bending over and having to expose intimate parts of her body while she was menstruating, the panel heard.
How is this ever justified when searching for cannabis, or any drugs for that matter? Unless she’s hiding a gun there’s no world where the police officer should ask a child to take her underwear off.
I wonder if strip searches in general are justifiable in this modern age. We’ve got those full body scanner thingees, now.
I wouldn’t expect a full strip search to take place anywhere other than the Police Station, at which point there would be a senior officer to take responsibility.
The fact that this disciplinary process has gone on for about 4 and a half years now is ludicrous. It shouldn’t take anything like that long.
The fact that the copper thought strip searching a child was ‘doing the right thing’ in the context of looking for cannabis is insane.
How about just legalise the damn drugs ffs.. Legalise, regulate, and all this goes away.. No demand no gangs.. Use the money from the additional taxes to pay for education around drugs, support centres etc.
You can smell weed anywhere in Britain these days. You don’t have to be smoking it yourself to get the scent on your clothes with the stronger strains around.
One of the issues with excusing groups from searches or other laws is that it creates a huge incentive to use those groups to hold or transfer things.
In the UK illegal firearms possession carries an automatic prison term for an adult, and rightly so. So multiple cases have of children being used to hold, transport and provide the firearm have occurred. Which isn’t actually good for kids.
I don’t care for enforcement of cannabis prohibition. It there are reasons you do NOT want to give any group a blanket exclusion from searches…
From reading this article it seems to be a great demonstration that we get the quality of police officers we are prepared to pay for.
Strip searched a 15 year old girl over a false accusation of being in possession of weed (who even cares, it’s just weed) and the search did not take place in a police station or with an appropriate adult present. They should both lose their jobs and be placed on a register. A scourge on humanity.
Have the teachers faced any charges? They failed to prevent a sexual assault. They have a duty of care. Or is it all just words.
I remember the (justified) outrage when this happened, those coppers are a bloody disgrace.
Can’t wait for the officer to say the exact same thing when his hard drives are being confiscated…
the biggest thing for me is more they why rather then the what, in this case the benchmark for a strip search and for calling the police in the first place
someone belives they can smell weed coming from you, they search you and your poperty and find nothing, how and why does that meen that the plice has to be called….. the teachers that approved that realy fucked up and should also be held to account
But even then, what was the rational of the plice officers, is this person known to the police, do they have a history or record of this type of conduct, can the officers, or anyone other person for that matter, pick up the smell that the teacher is alleging is coming from the suspect?
why does “i think i can smell weed, i think it’s coming from that person, we have searched them and have found nothing” meet the benchmark for a strip search?
Getting them down to the underwear is probably a step too far but, at that point surely you go well.. how much weed can a 15 year old girl possibly get inside her pussy?
Should probably call this a day.
This lunatic is getting kids to spread em on the off chance of finding an 8ball inside em.
How traumatising for a young girl who will likely never trust the police again.
‘Doing the right thing’
Like that is their excuse… pathetic. The right thing would be for all these police offices to be charged with sexual assault, in my opinion.
Morgan Freeman narrating: “But he was not doing the right thing…”
Lets not forget that the UK is the largest exporter of cannabis…
Ok for them to sell it but not ok for us to smoke it
They’re sex offenders and should be recognised as such
Everything I know about policing in the UK tells me that the vast majority searches are carried out for one of two reasons: either because the police want to find ID, or because they are personally annoyed with the person they’re searching and want to embarrass them.
On the basis that they presumably knew who this kid was, even without knowing the specifics, there is probably an 80% chance this is a case of the latter, which would make it a really serious bit of nastiness that should result in a long prison sentence for the police involved (it won’t, it never does).
Obviously, all this would make most searches unlawful. The police do this because they know there’s almost never any oversight, any monitoring, or any meaningful complaints system. The fact that this happened is not surprising. The fact it is making headlines is. I can only hope that the worm is finally turning here, and that incessant police misbehaviour is finally starting to be noticed by the majority. Pushing half of the UK population has no confidence in the police, so it’s about time the other half, well, *noticed*.
Sorry but this officer just sounds like she was on a bit of a power trip. She was crying whilst giving evidence, but it comes across that the tears are because she was caught out & accused of misconduct, as opposed to being genuinely remorseful. Because she goes on to justify her actions whilst admitting protocol wasn’t followed.
All it would have taken is a few seconds to breathe and check at the time. Like what was the rush? As far as I have read, there was no urgent threat or weapons used etc. There was definitely time for a conversation before bulldozing ahead.
Clearly the recruitment and training of police officers in London is severally lacking in quality and oversight if idiots who believe this was the right thing to do were hired
It’s troubling to read many comments where mental gymnastics are used to justify and to enable those strip searching children.
If you told the police that your house was burgled and that you have footage of the perpetrator on your ring camera, they’d just give you a CRN for insurance and close the case. The fact they did this to a young girl who smelled of weed makes no sense to me.
Idk, but if a (minor?) child came into school smelling of weed, isn’t that a case for social services as it suggests a safeguarding issue? The fact that it seems that it escalated straight to police presence and strip searches is insane.
I find this so hard to believe. Not on as I _don’t_ believe it, in a, I _can’t_ believe it kind of way.
What on earth were the adults in this situation thinking? Even if she did have cannabis shoved inside her body, that would surely be an issue to refer to safeguarding, not the police? Unless of course the safeguarding was for the police to try and probe her, using their words, about why she was carrying cannabis in her vagina?!
That poor girl. I had to have an internal examination 20 years ago after a rape, I imagine this was how it felt for her. But probably worse, because at least the doctor doing that for me was for my benefit.