New data shows thousands of people were still being subjected to strip searches during the pandemic, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people disproportionately targeted.
abc.net.au/news/4500-strip-searches-pandemic-nsw/101359456More than 100 children were strip searched by NSW police during the state's COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new data which also shows Indigenous people were disproportionately affected.
Overall, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 9 per cent of those strip searched between 2020–21, and 11 per cent between 2021 to May this year. "There is no circumstance where it is acceptable for children to be ordered to remove their clothes in front of adults," she said. In NSW, police are only permitted a strip search when the officer suspects on reasonable grounds that circumstances make a strip search "necessary", "serious" and "urgent".
"So, we get a whole range of young people particularly children for absolutely no reason and nothing is found on them in the end."The data showed that in nearly 60 per cent of searches nothing illegal was found, during the period.
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