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"A dog came up to me and sat down, which was terrifying, then two female police officers strip-searched me," one of the women said. [ 61 ] May 2 – A study published by RMIT criminology researcher Dr Peta Malins highlighted a number of issues relating to the use of drug detection dogs by police.
"The Correct Procedure for a Visual Search" – A 1990 video produced by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A strip search is a practice of searching a person for weapons or other contraband suspected of being hidden on their body or inside their clothing, and not found by performing a frisk search, but by requiring the person to remove some or all clothing.
The "Body Worn Video Standard Operating Procedures'" or "BWV SOPs", stated that "police should capture a strip search on BWV where possible" and that any video should be "filmed from behind the person searched and at 45 degrees for the purpose of maintaining the person's privacy".
But the illegal strip search in 2020 of two women, one age 65 and the other 75, were emblematic of the department’s shortcomings, said the report, which was released Thursday.
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The “traumatic” search by Metropolitan Police officers took place at the girl’s school without another adult present and in the knowledge that she was menstruating, a safeguarding report found.
The female manager (who believed she was speaking to a police officer who was with the director of operations for the restaurant's upper management) took a female employee into the women's bathroom and strip-searched her. She also brought in a 55-year-old male janitor, who conducted a body cavity search of the
Cardenas underwent two strip searches, a cavity search where a male doctor allegedly violated her, X-ray and CT scans, and a drug and pregnancy test -- and was still not allowed to see her husband.