Two officers fired over strip search of black schoolgirl

TWO Metropolitan Police officers who carried out a “disproportion-ate” and “humiliating” strip search of a 15-year-old black girl at school have been fired.

- By Chris Samuel

A disciplinary panel ruled the actions of Det Con Kristina Linge and PC Rafal Szmydynski amounted to gross misconduct.

PC Victoria Wray, who was found to have committed misconduct for her role over the girl, known as Child Q, was given a final written warning.

Panel chairman Commander Jason Prins said: “There has been enormous harm to Child Q and significant harm to the community in trusting the police.”

He added “this is a very high harm case” and given the “extremely serious findings” made by the panel “the only appropriate outcome is dismissal without notice”.

The panel heard that the girl had been wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis at a school in Hackney, East London.