THE horrific strip search of a black schoolgirl while she was on her period by Metropolitan Police officers has triggered angry protests demanding “police out of schools.”

The 15-year-old, known as Child Q, was subjected to the traumatic search while at her school in Hackney, east London, without an appropriate adult present in late 2020. 

A safeguarding inspection by the local council, released earlier this week, found that racism was a likely factor behind her treatment.

During the search, intimate areas of her body were exposed and she was asked to take off her period pad, the review said.

Teachers had called the police after wrongly suspecting her of having cannabis. 

The disturbing case has prompted widespread outrage, with London Mayor Sadiq Khan urging the Independent Office for Police Conduct to charge the three officers involved with gross misconduct. 

Local MP Diane Abbott said she was “personally disgusted” by the incident, and has demanded an urgent meeting with Hackney police.

It has led to renewed calls for police to be removed from schools, with a demo set to take place outside Stoke Newington police station at 4pm on Friday.

Protest organiser Hackney Cop Watch said: “After what police did to Child Q, and to the 25 other children strip-searched in Hackney schools last year, we say: ‘No More Police in Schools.’

A solidarity protest is also being held in St Peter’s Square in Manchester at 5pm. 

A spokesperson for Black Lives Matter UK said the case was a “clear example of why police should not be in places of education.”

In a statement released by her family’s lawyers, Child Q described her pain following the incident: “I can’t go a single day without wanting to scream, shout, cry or just give up. I don’t know if I’m going to feel normal again.”