A former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions says its a great concern NSW Police have a quota to conduct more than 240,000 personal searches and strip searches in 12 months.
Nicholas Cowdery, the former director of public prosecutions and now the president of the NSW Council of Civil Liberties, said quota-driven searches were totally inappropriate.
"It's of great concern that police are arbitrarily interfering with people even when they don't have a proper basis for exercising those coercive powers." A spokesperson for NSW Police defended the use of quotas and said the force had a business plan target which was calculated on a three-year average.
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