Parliament's intent was that strip Strip searches of children can be conducted at searches be used as a last resort and in a police station or other place of detention12 exceptional circumstances:17 and in the field (outside a police station).13 The search is to be performed by an officer of the The New South Wales police watchdog, the same sex as the child being searched.14 LECC, investigated str. [...] 14 Ibid s 33(1)(b) 15 Ibid, provides that where a strip search is carried in public, the test includes ‘necessary for the purposes of the search and that the seriousness and urgency of the circumstances make the strip search necessary’. [...] Merely prudential strip formation and wellbeing can be searches, whether in the field or in the significant.10 police station, are unlawful.20 The traumatic impact of strip searches on children is also highlighted in the report on the NSW Police Force strip search practice by the LECC11. [...] Total children strip searched 10 0* 0 0 0 0 0 0 There was a total of 1,546 children strip 11 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 searched by the NSW Police Force between 12 4 1 0 2 0 0 5 2016/17 and 2022/23. [...] 17-year-old First Nations female children 17-year-old First Nations female children represented 33.99% (52) of all 17-year-old represented 27.51% (52) and is the age group female children strip searched, despite with the highest number of First Nations female representing only 6.00% (2,631) of the children strip searched.
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