New state police have admitted that police officers in the new state did abuse undress search authority and did not give the person the necessary prompt before the search.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, an internal report by (Lessons Learned Unit), the New State Police experience Group, said that because the law did not clearly define strip searches, police officers could only exercise the authority according to their own understanding.
The November 2018 report found that the authority had been exercised inconsistently at a number of music festivals and stressed that sniffing dog findings did not serve as a permit for police strip searches.
The report of the police experience group said that in order to clearly demonstrate their legal search authority to police officers, the police had developed step-by-step teaching stickers and displayed points for attention in police officers' computer screensavers during the summer music festival.
However, the report for police education and training purposes indicated that because the law did not clearly define the stripping body, resulting in inconsistencies in actual law enforcement actions, the New State Police Force needed to provide uniform requirements and clear law enforcement guidance on the stripping rules.
According to the police report, the problem of strip search violations was due to the ambiguity of the definition and the failure of the police to give the necessary explanation before the search.
It is understood that in the four years between fiscal year 2014 / 15 and fiscal year 2017 / 18, the number of undress searches increased by nearly 50%. The police's internal report says the trend not only increases the risk of complaints, but also increases the number of litigation disputes.
Last year, a man who was undress and searched by police for no reason sued the new state police and was successfully awarded A $112000 in damages.
According to the new state law, police officers may ask the suspect to undress and search on the spot if they consider it necessary on the basis of reasonable suspicion or emergency.
In a statement, New State police speak said that all newly recruited police officers were trained in searching and stripping the search authority and recently circulated a page of police enforcement regulations.
The speaker also mentioned that (Education and Training Command), the police education and training command, will also update videos and information on body search and strip search law enforcement specifications for all police officers to watch and learn from time to time.
To improve the problem, prominent lawer, including Gaime (Tim Game), chairman of the (NSW Bar Association) of the New State lawer Association, has called for tighter regulations to set an "objective standard" to constrain police enforcement.
