Met Police officers failing to properly record stop and search reasons, critical report finds

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A number of scandals have hit the force in recent months from the murder of Sarah Everard and embarrassing stop and search incidents, including that of athlete Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos, to the disproportionate strip searches of Black children such as Child Q and racist and offensive WhatsApp messages exchanged between officers at Charing Cross police station. open image in gallery On Wednesday, serving Met Police officer Jonathon Cobban and former Pc Joel Borders were found guilty at City of London Magistrates’ Court of sending grossly offensive misogynistic and racist messages in a WhatsApp group with Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens. open image in gallery Chris Kaba, 24, was killed on September 5 following a police pursuit of his car which ended in Streatham Hill, south London Data obtained from Scotland Yard by the Children’s Commissioner in August showed some 650 children aged 10 to 17 were strip-searched by Met officers between 2018 and 2020; some 58 per cent were Black. Two Met Police officers, Pc Sukhdev Jeer and Pc Paul Hefford, were sacked in July after posting offensive messages in a group chat, including a racist joke about the Duchess of Sussex.