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Elliot Gold and Cecily White act for IOPC Director General in ‘Child Q’ police misconduct case

27th June 2025


The Independent Office for Police Conduct brought a misconduct case against three police officers involved in a strip-search of ‘child Q’ – a fifteen year old, Black girl. Elliot and Cecily were instructed to advise on and present the case for the Director General.

After a four-week hearing, two officers were dismissed and one received a final written warning for what the misconduct hearing panel described as a “disastrous and negative interaction” between the police and child Q by subjecting her to a strip-search that “should never have been undertaken”.

The IOPC statement is here.

News articles include:

Child Q violated in strip-search, hearing told

Strip-search police told girl she may be arrested

Two Met officers dismissed for gross misconduct after strip-search of black schoolgirl

Two Met officers committed gross misconduct in child Q search, panel says

Officers who strip-searched black girl at school are sacked

Police officers who strip-searched girl, 15, sacked

Elliot Gold’s profile is here.

Cecily White’s profile is here.


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