A safeguarding report on the incident concluded it was unjustified and racism was 'likely' to have been a factor.
A black schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis.
Family members described her as changing from a "happy-go-lucky girl to a timid recluse that hardly speaks", who now self-harms and needs therapy.Police were called to a school in Hackney at the end of 2020 by teachers, who told investigators they had been concerned the teenager had drugs in her possession because she smelt of cannabis.
Her family strongly believe the strip search was a racist incident, and the review found her experiences are "unlikely to have been the same" had she not been black.The Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review, published in March, was conducted by City & Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership . She said: "I need to know that the people who have done this to me can't do it to anyone else ever again, in fact so no-one else can do this to any other child in their care."
Det Supt Dan Rutland, of the Met's Central East Command, said: "We recognise that the findings of the safeguarding review reflect this incident should never have happened.
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