Met Police officers facing sack over school strip-search of Child Q revealed
Constables Kristina Linge, Victoria Wray and Rafal Szmydynski will appear before a three-week gross misconduct hearing starting on June 2
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Three Metropolitan Police officers facing the sack over the strip-search of a black schoolgirl wrongly accused of possessing cannabis have been named.
Detective Constable Kristina Linge will appear before a three-week gross misconduct hearing alongside PCs Victoria Wray and PC Rafal Szmydynski on June 2 over the treatment of Child Q.
The girl was searched while on her period with no appropriate adult present at a school in Hackney after being accused of carrying drugs on December 3, 2020.
Nothing was found in her bags or outer clothing.
Hundreds attended large protests across east London and outside Stoke Newington Police Station after a safeguarding review revealed she was taken out of an exam to the schoolâs medical room for a strip-search while teachers remained outside.
Her intimate body parts were exposed and she was made to take off her sanitary towel, it was said.
According to a notice of the disciplinary hearing, Child Qâs search was âdisproportionate in all the circumstancesâ and performed in a âunjustified, inappropriate, disproportionate, humiliating and degradingâ manner.
It is alleged the âchildâs raceâ was a reason no regard had been given to the absence of a suitable adult or concern for her age and sex.
Scotland Yard claims Szmydynski and Linge each made a misleading record of the search after its conclusion.
Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley outside New Scotland Yard
James Manning/PA Wire
Announcing news that the officers would face a misconduct panel, Independent Office for Police Conduct director Steve Noonan said in September 2023: âThe âstrip searchâ of Child Q, a 15-year-old girl, at her school in Hackney caused widespread concern.
âWe have investigated the circumstances surrounding how this child was treated that day as fully as possible.â
If gross misconduct is proved, the officers could be sacked.
A fourth officer will have a disciplinary meeting over the fact that no appropriate adult was present.
Detective Chief Superintendent James Conway, who leads policing in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, said at the time: âWe have been clear in saying that the experience of Child Q should never have happened and was truly regrettable.
âWhile we have publicly apologised, I am also writing formally to Child Q and her family to say sorry for the trauma that we caused her.
âIt will now be for the hearing panel to determine whether the matters against the three officers are proven and it is important we donât pre-judge the outcome.â
Schoolgirls attend the protest outside Stoke Newington Police Station (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
PA Wire
Last year, the Met announced a âchild-firstâ approach to policing but stressed that it does not mean a âfree passâ for criminality by young people.
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the five-year strategy recognises that the force had sometimes focused âtoo hardâ on criminality and not the âvulnerability that lies behind itâ.
All officers will receive new training in childhood vulnerability and adultification bias, which means young people from certain backgrounds are viewed as more grown up.
Sir Mark added more senior levels of authorisation are now needed for strip searches, and that the number being carried out has reduced because the force âhad been overusing this powerâ.
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