Australia: New report shows over 80,000 strip searches conducted in NSW in 10 years, with more than 85% finding nothing

The report titled ‘The Use of Strip Searches & Drug Dogs in NSW’, based on 10 years of police data from 2014 to 2023, was released today by Harm Reduction Australia and Redfern Legal Centre. The report analysing ten years of previously unreleased data, shows the following: • Between 2014 and 2023, NSW Police reported conducting 82,471 strip searches. • […]