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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.
One woman told SBS News she had been made to "strip and squat" after a positive indication from a drug detection dog, while another woman claimed she had been made to squat naked inside a booth after police had witnessed her handing a fifty-dollar note to her boyfriend. [5]
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.
At a coronial inquest in July earlier that year, Counsel Assisting the Coroner Dr. Peggy Dwyer had called on NSW Police to release its strip search protocols. The request was made after a 28-year-old witness had broken down in tears at the inquest while recalling how an officer had ordered her to strip naked and repeatedly "squat and cough ...
A woman was wrongfully arrested, strip-searched and jailed for 15 hours because she refused to show a police officer her ID at her own home, an Alabama lawsuit says.
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.
"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.
A further eight referrals involving strip searches of children have been made to the police watchdog. The voluntary referrals relate to separate incidents between December 2019 and March 2022 ...