>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.
homelaberator on
I wonder if strip searches in general are justifiable in this modern age. We’ve got those full body scanner thingees, now.
AnninaCried on
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.
limeflavoured on
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.
Optimism_Deficit on
The fact that the copper thought strip searching a child was ‘doing the right thing’ in the context of looking for cannabis is insane.
BigIncome5028 on
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.
Current_Focus2668 on
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.
Sea-Caterpillar-255 on
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…
grapplinggigahertz on
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.
OldSchoolRollie62 on
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.
Internal_Rise2658 on
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.
Psychological-Plum10 on
I remember the (justified) outrage when this happened, those coppers are a bloody disgrace.
AntysocialButterfly on
Can’t wait for the officer to say the exact same thing when his hard drives are being confiscated…
but_yet-so_far on
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?
Calm-Treacle8677 on
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.
Slight_Lake_1736 on
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.
AddictedToRugs on
Morgan Freeman narrating: “But he was not doing the right thing…”
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>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…”