Australia - strip searches by police NSW by leading suburb or town 2018

In 2018, Sydney Olympic Park was the suburb which had the highest number of strip searches carried out by police in New South Wales in Australia, with 524 searches. On the other hand, in Goulburn there were under 100 strip searches carried out in 2018.

Number of strip searches by police in New South Wales, Australia in financial year 2018, by leading suburb or town

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August 2019

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Australia

Survey time period

financial year 2018

Supplementary notes

Suburbs or towns in which 20 or more strip searches were carried out.

Taken from a list of 34 suburbs or towns.

Strip search is defined by the source as 'a search of a person or of articles in the possession of a person that may include: a. requiring the person to remove all of his or her clothes, and b. an examination of the person's body (but not of the persons body cavities) and of those clothes'.

*Wollongong includes: W.Wollongong, Warilla, Warrawong, Lake Illawarra, Dapto, Figtree, Oak Flats and Port Kembla.

**Nowra includes: Bomaderry, S.Nowra and Worrigee

Australia's financial year runs from July 1 to June 30; for example, financial year 2017 starts on July 1, 2016 and ends on June 30, 2017.

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