Police watchdog has issued notices to three officers over ‘humiliating’ and ‘abusive’ incident
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Three Metropolitan police officers are under investigation after a black child was strip-searched at her school while on her period over unfounded suspicions she had cannabis.
The incident has triggered outrage and disbelief, with Labour frontbencher Jess Phillips likening the treatment to child abuse.
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