Fact Sheet - NSW Scanning Laws - Knives and Weapons (Fin

Police can use scanners in public transport areas, shopping centres (including the car park), retail strips, What can police do if the scanner sporting venues (including a racecourse), detects an object? special events, and other public places Police only have the power to order you to declared designated areas. [...] The police can produce the object that has caused the also use the scanners on public transport scanner to indicate. [...] Police officers must: conduct the scan in the least invasive way practicable Can police search you if an object is found on you? if practicable, ensure the scan is done by an officer of the same sex Police can only search you if they suspect on reasonable grounds that you have only detain you as long as something stolen, an item intended to be necessary to scan you used in connection with an. [...] station and the reasons for Depending on the object and scanning, and circumstances, if the scanner detects an if not in uniform, provide proof they object, this may or may not contribute to are a police officer. [...] What if the object that caused the scanner to indicate is a metal pill box or piece of foil? Do I have to open the lid or foil? The law only requires you to produce the item that may have caused the detector to make a sound.