Met police sergeant cleared over strip search of academic

A Metropolitan police officer who ordered the strip search of an academic, in part because she would not disclose her name while in detention, has been cleared by a disciplinary panel.Sgt Kurtis Howard had faced a possible finding of gross misconduct over claims that his order to search Konstancja Duff, 29, was a breach of the police standards of professional behaviour.On Thursday, however, halfway through a hearing that had been expected to last three days, the panel decided Howard had no case