The police panel, led by Hackney’s Basic Unit commander, Marcus Barnett, admitted that the Met has a problem with officers viewing inner London children as “adults”, adding that what happened to Child Q would probably not have happened to a child living in the Cotswolds, as an example.
Well, maybe because in the Cotswolds, a child is unlikely to go to school smelling so strongly of cannabis that teachers are concerned, perhaps?
The meeting also revealed that Barnett knew about the girl being strip searched in January 2021. Officers were called due to a teacher wrongly suspecting that she had cannabis.
Not an unreasonable assumption, given her clothes stank of it.
He added that the school “probably should not have called us and we should probably have understood very quickly that we had no role to play there”.
Why not? Drugs are illegal, aren't they? Aren't you always boasting about your successes when you find some?
"Better put them back, lads. The boss said we've no role to play here after all..."
What exactly do you think you're playing at? Reflexively cringing in front of the mob won't head off the usual suspects at the pass, will it?
Chanel Dolcy, a solicitor at Bhatt Murphy, which is representing the family in proceedings against the police, said Child Q had launched civil proceedings against the force and her school seeking to hold both institutions to account “to ensure this never happens again to any other child”.
Translation: "Open the taxpayer's pockets, there's more money to be made!"
The old maxim ... follow the money.
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