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Inquiry into NSW Police Force strip search practices

This Inquiry includes the Commission’s 2020 report Inquiry into NSW Police Force strip search practices and a follow-up report published in 2023 entitled Review of a sample of NSW Police Force strip search practices 2021 – 2022.

Inquiry Reports

Report to Parliament: Review of a sample of NSW Police Force strip search records 2021 – 2022 (2023)

Fact Sheet – Review of a sample of NSW Police strip search records 2021- 2022 (2023)

Executive Summary -  Inquiry into NSW Police Force strip search practices

Report to Parliament - Inquiry into NSW Police Force strip search practices

Fact Sheet 1 - Summary of the Strip Search Inquiry

Fact Sheet 2 - Recommendations of the Strip Search inquiry

Fact Sheet 3 - Thresholds for strip searches

Fact Sheet 4 - Responses to the Recommendations of the Inquiry into NSW Police Force Strip Search Practices

Media Releases

25 September 2023 Media Release – Commission audit finds untrained officers strip searched music festival patrons

15 December 2020 Media Release - Inquiry into NSW Police Force strip search practices 

Other Reports relating to NSW Police Strip Search Practices

Operation Gennaker

Operation Brugge

Operation Mainz

Operation Sandbridge

Operation Karuka

Arrest, Detention and Strip searching of two female protesters on 10/11/2017

Strike Force Blackford