‘Child Q case made me fear could this happen to me’

“If he could happen to a girl, I thought you were younger than me, do you imagine what might happen to me?”

After teachers accused him of carrying cannabis, only a 15 -year -old girl, who is defined as the child Q for more than four years since the search for strip is searched by the police officers in East London school in East London.

CASE Public protests in East London in March 2022After the details appeared Protection reportHe saw that the search was unfair and that racism was “likely” to be a factor.

A disciplinary hearing for the relevant civil servants found that the race was not a factor in the form of Child Q, but MET admitted that the incident affected its relationship with black communities.

18 -year -old Adnan said he made him feel less safe, “especially a girl should be safer than me as a child” and starts to worry about how the police officers can look at with doubt.

“Now I have to question how I’m walking, how I’m dressed,” he explains.

On Thursday, two metropolitan police officers who searched strips It was found that it works gross abuse.

In the event of a third police officer, abuse has been proven.

Although the disciplinary panel of the Met has been more likely to be more vulnerable than the white peers of black school children, it was found to be more likely to be treated, but what age or race is not a factor in the form of treatment of Child Q.

The panel heard that black people were more likely to stop and searched by the police, but the panel refused to accept a “inference” that the girl’s race caused “less appropriate treatment”.

Despite this, MET apologized for the “damage and confidence of this incident to the confidence and confidence of black communities in London”.

Commander Kevin Southworth said that the power, which acknowledges that there are organizational failures, has brought a series of changes such as authorizing the searches of the sincere parts of the body by a inspector and the existence of an appropriate adult.

The force added that “it continues to listen to communities and partners about what we have to do in our processes” and “will continue to work closely with schools”.

Adnan tells me that some of his friends have participated in protests and brought the society together and demanded answers from Met.

“But I feel like we don’t have to do it all, because [officers] Instead of being threatened, he needs to make us feel protected. ”

“Just made us think, the police or with us?” 18 -year -old Prince accepts.

Together with Alyssia, 17, EDEM, 17 and Tosin, young people are the Ambassadors of Voyage, who describes themselves as a Social Justice charity that struggles with racial imbalance in London.

“I don’t think this will be a white girl from a grammar school.”

“How did the teachers see me? How can teachers see my friends? Could this be to me? ‘ And this really scared me.

“When the police do this, I feel that their rights were removed from him, Ed Edem says, referring to the search.

“They need to be an extreme precaution,” Alyssia adds. “There are many other things they can do for that girl, but it was their first town, and I don’t understand why.”

Last year A national report from the Children’s Commissioner He increased concerns in the number of children investigated, but found that there was a “sharp reduction” in London that “the efforts to deal with the problem” had an impact.

He said that the case frightened him for his safety and his younger brother, and he was worried about vulnerable children who may not know what their rights are “.

I ask if he and his friends and their family are stopped by the police.

He tells me he’s doing it, because he thinks he’s a “duty of protection”.

“But I think it’s sad to make a speech about it, because it’s not us, it’s a changing police.”

The Prince tells me that he stopped and called on his way home from Study Club a few years ago. He upset him and confused.

“My record was clean and I didn’t do anything bad to be in the police books or something else, so it wasn’t really right as they treated me.

“Is it because I’m black? Is it because I’m black?

“I still think.”

Tosin says he’s never stopped and wanted, but he says that the police “follow him” him and his friends and whether he is racially profile.

“If you look at me right now, I have bends, I have earrings. People may think I’m coming from a bad background, but I’m actually coming from a pretty good background.”

What is the solution to increase the trust between the police and young people?

“The police can only be a good relationship as long as the police communicate with people and really interact with ethnic minorities.”

Adnan acknowledges that the police should be based in the long run in their local societies, so that they know the Londons they protect.

EDEM adds that MET’s civil servants from different pasts reflecting these communities are also important.

Thanks to the journey, he met several officers in the Met Black Police Association “already trusted”.

He continued: “The ways of connection with me showed that they care about progress and how to keep everyone safe, as they are from the same communities I am.”

In recent years, met a Recruitment driving to try and attract women, blacks and ethnic minority communities Increase the diversity in the labor force.

Former Met Det Supt Shabnam Chaudhri told me that what happened to Child Q was “unacceptable at every level”.

“Young people need to be stopped and searched. They regularly use firearms, drugs, cash, all kinds of things are used as carriers, but [police] You need to manage better. “

Earlier this year, Met introduced a new set of commitments Stop and callAfter consulting communities in London, including young people.

The force said that the force has changed the policy of ribbon searches for children to balance the needs for children against the impact they may have, and some may be a victim of the exploitation of those in the gangs.

This, in addition to requiring an appropriate adult to be present, a inspector should authorize before such a search.

Last year, met a Race action plan Trusting and rebuilding London’s black communities.

However, he is not convinced when I put this in Adnan, who said he had participated in some consultations.

“Some of the sessions I went to felt that the police officers did not even want to be there, and I felt like another chore they didn’t want to do.”

Voyage CEO Paul Anderson says that there is no “no human shortage”, but he has not yet seen a meaningful action.

“We can talk until the cows come home, but we actually want to see that the change took place, and we don’t see it.”

As he grew up in the 1980s, he says that he has his own “brutal” experience, which led him to create the group and share his story with young generations.

But years later, he still disappointed that they had the same conversations.

As the police should apply openness and transparency, including speaking with groups as we were stabbed in the region, and the extra stops and search forces known as Chapter 60 are fulfilled.

“Information like this is a lighting bolt to us,” he tells me. “Thus, young people ‘PS and QS’nde, wisely dressed, walked well, safe areas to stay, can be seen.”

But he says it doesn’t happen.

He continued: “He is caught from this kind of community, more than us, to see the support to close this gap between young people and the police.”

He also tells me how civil servants are trying to become clear as to whether they will play a role in local schools.

Last September, a Revision of Secure School Officers (SSOs) It has been announced in Hackney, so they will now give advice on politics, but they refrain from participating in minor problems that are not guilty or influencing young people at school.

MET IN THE END OF THIS YEAR Officers from schools are definite In London and to save them to the neighborhood policing, which has led some teachers to worry about making children less safe.

Although the civil servants in the search for the child Q is not SSO, Ngozi Fulani, CEO of the Cystah field of Hackney domestic violence, says why the case shows why the police should not be in the classroom.

He continued: “I guess they know that the children who want police officers in their schools are very low.”

Tosin thinks that having more civil servants in schools could be a useful movement if it was one of the ethnic minority history, but Alyssia believes that these roles should be filled by youth employees.

The authority says that the voices of young people are often missing in deciding by the authorities.

The Prince tells me that he’s not sure of Met’s reform promises.

“They’ll say something, ‘Oh yes, I’m sorry, or something’, but you hear that the police hear something bad for the next few months.

“Come on. If you continue to do, you can’t continue to apologize.”