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🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.1 | Let me start today's programme by sharing some words with you. |
0:13.8 | What's that smell? |
0:14.8 | Oh, it's her nickers. |
0:17.5 | Those are the words of police officers at an orthes London police station after a female |
0:22.4 | academic was held down on the floor and stripped searched, followed by Issue Rank. |
0:28.5 | Now that same woman, Dr Koschka Duff, has won an apology and compensation from the Metropolitan |
0:33.5 | Police because they use sexist, derogatory and unacceptable language as they stripped |
0:38.6 | search term. |
0:39.6 | She's now an assistant professor of philosophy at Nottingham University and those words |
0:43.8 | were captured on CCTV that was disclosed as part of a civil action that she took against |
0:48.9 | the force. |
0:49.9 | She was arrested in 2013 on suspicion of obstructing and assaulting police after trying to |
0:55.6 | hand a legal advice card to a 15-year-old court and a stop and search sweep in Hackney. |
1:01.3 | Allegations she was cleared of in court. |
1:03.8 | But before that, she was taken to Stoke, Newington Police Station where a search was ordered |
1:08.6 | after she refused to cooperate with officers. |
1:11.8 | Now we've invited her. |
1:12.8 | We've invited Dr Duff onto Woman's Hour and I very much hope we can make that happen |
1:17.0 | should she wish to of course. |
1:18.7 | And here directly from her and more detail about that case and of course the impact on |
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