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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