Strip Searches

Question 1

Better detection of crime

Answer 1

5 181 charges resulting from strip searches (2016-19)
“Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police” - UNSW 2019

Question 2

Risks safety

Answer 2

60% of strip searches don’t find anything (2014-18)
“Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police”
UNSW 2019

Question 3

Causes trauma (case)

Answer 3

“Describes an experience that was distressing & humiliating… stayed with her after the event… distress was palpable and disturbing”
2019 Coronial Inquest into Strip Searches

Question 4

Causes trauma

Answer 4

“‘These experiences ruin people’: strip search victim speaks out”
SMH 2019

Question 5

Safeguards - reasoning

Answer 5

s21 LEPRA

Question 6

Safeguards - neccecity

Answer 6

s31 LEPRA

Question 7

Safeguards - dignity & privacy

Answer 7

s32 LEPRA

Question 8

Safeguards - rules for conduct

Answer 8

s33 LEPRA

Question 9

Safeguards - age restrictions

Answer 9

s34 LEPRA

Question 10

Accountability - Investigation

Answer 10

“unlawful arrest & strip searching… unsuccessful prosecution for hindering police”
LECC: Operation Sandbridge (Atalla) 2015

Question 11

Accountability - Case

Answer 11

Atalla v State of NSW 2018

Question 12

Non-compliance with safeguards - General

Answer 12

“Legality of police strip-searches in NSW is ‘debatable’, watchdog says”
The Guardian 2020

Question 13

Non-compliance with safeguards - Specific

Answer 13

“Horrific claims a baby was STRIP SEARCHED by police with an officer ‘spreading the infants legs”
Daily Mail 2022

Question 14

Uncertainty around LEPRA

Answer 14

“Confusion & inconsistency among police units”, “own definition of what strip searches were”
“Lessons Learnt Unit” - NSW Police