25 h. ago Child Q: 'I don't know if I'm going to feel normal again' says woman as Met officers sacked over strip search

A disciplinary hearing found search by three officers at school in Hackney was ‘unnecessary, inappropriate and disproportionate’

Society

34 h. ago ‘I don’t know if I’m going to feel normal again’ Child Q says over strip search

Two Met Police officers have been dismissed after being found to have committed gross misconduct in relation to the ‘disproportionate’ search.

Politics

38 h. ago Two Met Police officers sacked over ‘humiliating’ strip search of 15

Black schoolgirl forced to expose intimate parts in ‘traumatic’ police search at Hackney school in 2020 after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

Events

8 d. ago Three Met officers face misconduct hearing after woman with dementia, 90, is handcuffed and marked with Taser

The elderly woman was handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London in 2023

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8 d. ago Met officers to face gross misconduct hearing after woman, 90, targeted with Taser

Two serving officers and one former officer to face hearing after woman was also handcuffed and put in spit hoodTwo serving Metropolitan police officers and one former officer will face a gross misconduct hearing after a 90-year-old woman with dementia was targeted with a Taser, the police watchdog said.The woman was also handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London, in May 2023, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Three Met officers facing misconduct hearing after woman, 90, marked with Taser

The woman, who had dementia, was also handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London, on May 9 2023.

Events

8 d. ago Met Police officers to face misconduct hearing after woman with dementia, 90, handcuffed and put in spit hood

A 90-year-old Black woman with dementia was ‘red-dotted’ with a Taser, handcuffed and put in a spit hood

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