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RSS FeedsToronto police conduct `far too many´ strip searches, says damning report from Ontario´s police watchdog
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22 march 2019 08:10:04

 
Toronto police conduct `far too many´ strip searches, says damning report from Ontario´s police watchdog
(The Star Theatre)
 


Four out of every 10 arrests Toronto police officers made between 2014 to 2016 involved strip searches — an “inherently degrading” police practice that a landmark Supreme Court decision ruled should never become routine. The staggering number of strip searches performed in Toronto — a rate 40 times that of five other Ontario police forces of comparable size — is described in a comprehensive report released Thursday by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD). The systemic review — which grew out of the “unabated” number of individual strip-search complaints to the police watchdog — concludes that police officers across Ontario continue to conduct unnecessary or even unlawful strip searches.This, despite the nearly 20-year-old guidelines on when and how strip searches can be conducted. The parameters were established in the Supreme Court ruling in R v. Golden, a case that involved a Toronto police strip search that judges found went too far. As a result of these “serious” issues of police compliance, courts in Ontario all-too-regularly toss cases or evidence due to unlawful or unreasonable searches, and too many people are humiliated by the intrusive searches, the OIPRD report finds. “Over the years, there has been a continuous stream of reported cases involving unconstitutional strip searches. Put simply, the issue has not abated despite the passage of 18 years since the Golden decision,” writes OIPRD director Gerry McNeilly, in the report, called “Breaking the Golden Rule.”Read more:What’s changing in Ford’s new police oversight law — and why it mattersWatchdog rapped after secret chats with Toronto cops led to nixed misconduct findingsUnder the Supreme Court definition, a strip search is the removal or rearrangement of some or all of someone’s clothing to allow for an officer to visually inspect genitals, buttocks, breasts or un ...


 
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