Strip Search

• Women forced off Qatar Airways flight for ‘invasive’ exam and strip search

  The flight to Sydney, Australia was held in Doha while all the women on board were searched, according to reports.

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  Oct 26, 2020
  
• Watchdog finds RCMP in Iqaluit not following strip-search policies

  A report released this week by the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP found that officers in Iqaluit did not properly understand the strip-search policy and lacked guidance from supervisors.

  Canada

  Oct 2, 2020
  
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• Ontario man’s drug-trafficking case tossed over ‘humiliating’ road-side strip search

  In his decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice Cary Boswell excluded incriminating evidence because officers violated Robert Cave's constitutional rights.

  Crime

  Dec 10, 2019
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• Ontario police watchdog finds unnecessary, illegal strip searches commonplace

  The report, which makes 50 recommendations, says police conduct more than 22,000 strip searches a year.

  Crime

  Mar 21, 2019
• Alberta man gets lighter sentence due to RCMP strip search

  A small-time drug trafficker has been handed a lighter sentence after a judge ruled the man was forced to undergo a humiliating and degrading strip search by RCMP.

  Crime

  Mar 22, 2017
• Dad files complaints after teen athlete strip searched at Vancouver airport

  The father of a 17-year-old Alberta athlete who trains with the Canadian National 17U Men's Water Polo Team is upset and demanding answers from security officials after he said he son was strip-searched without his parents' knowledge at the Vancouver airport Sunday.

  Feb 10, 2016
• No strip searches in Quebec schools independent report concludes

  After the release of a report into a recent strip-search incident, Quebec's new Education Minister agrees student strip searches are "humiliating."

  Canada

  May 13, 2015
• Strip-searched Quebec teen can’t return to school, judge rules

  A teen girl who was strip-searched at a Quebec City high school in a highly publicized case has lost her bid to return to the same institution.

  Mar 16, 2015
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• Quebec education minister resigns in wake of strip search comments

  Bolduc has been a source of embarrassment for the governing Liberals in recent days after comments he made about strip searches at schools.

  Canada

  Feb 26, 2015
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• Education Minister says school staff cannot strip search students

  Ontario’s education minister said Wednesday that “no school staff” conduct strip searches in the province, after a 15-year-old being strip searched at a high school in Quebec City.

  Education

  Feb 18, 2015