Updated 15 June: Four Metropolitan police officers are currently being investigated after an unjust strip-search was carried out on a 15-year-old Black schoolgirl known as Child Q.

The teenager was subjected to the strip-search by two female officers after teachers called the police and wrongly suspected her of carrying drugs, a child safeguarding review found.

The report, which was published in March, said the “traumatic” search took place at the girl’s school in Hackney, east London, without an appropriate adult present and has caused widespread protest and uproar across social media as people called for answers.

In the wake of the report, two of the five officers who were involved in the search were removed from frontline duties and the constables have since been served with gross misconduct notices in connection with the incident, which happened in December 2020.

Child Q: an investigation has been launched against the Met police officers who strip-searched Black schoolgirl