Exclusive: More than 4,400 strip searches were carried out in total between July 2020 and May 2022
– has never received a formal response by the state government.
In NSW, police are only permitted to conduct field strip-searches if the urgency and seriousness of the situation requires it. But in response to questions from the Guardian, NSW Police said that strip-searches were one of the “various proactive strategies” used in its “ongoing commitment to reducing crime and the fear of crime in the community”.Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning
data consistently showing the vast majority of strip-searches are done on the basis of suspected drug possessionThe data obtained by the RLC also showed nothing illegal was found in about 60% of searches conducted during the period.
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