when is a male police officer aloud to strip searech a female prisoner?

Question

dose that include body cavity searches

Answer 1

When a female officer (matron) is not available and officer safety, public safety or prisoner safety is at stake, a male police officer may search a female suspect.

Unless life and limb are at stake, no officer in his right mind would search a female suspect without a witness and a reliable recording device running.

When you ask about a strip search, you may be referring to a body cavity search or just an external surface search.

Prisoners aren't usually stripped naked or cavity searched until they reach the jail to be booked in and in those situations, female corrections officers are almost always available.

There are also other methods for searching a prisoner using metal detection wands, xray/fluoroscopes and other devices to assist officers in searching without having to open themselves up to criminal and civil accusations.

Answer 2

Normally never ( very seldom does a police officer ever stip search a suspect)

Prisoner is someone in jail, so there the correctional officers do the searches. Normally there is never a strip search on a crime scene but the suspect is transported back to the station for booking, ( or to the jail for booking) normally there they have officers who recieve suspects for holding and do the striping.

A male officer can be present if there is a female officer doing it, or if no female officer is available with a second officer as a witness it can be done( but I don't know of any case whereit has happened since all jails that recieve women have female officers for that purpose.

for a pat down, they are allowed to do it to check for weapons or counterban

Answer 3

Never. A male Police Officer doesn't have the right to strip search a female prisoner. That's what they use women Police Officers for.

Answer 4

There is a standing legal decision in the 9th Circuit US Federal Court called Jordan v. Gardner (986 F.2d 1521 (9th Cir.1992) that found it is cruel and unusual punishment to have male officers conduct clothed body searches on female prisoners. A female officer from another jurisdiction or law enforcement agency would be called in to make the strip search.

Answer 5

An excerpt from:
Title 5: ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND SERVICES
Part 1: STATE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 9: ATTORNEY GENERAL

B. Strip searches or body cavity searches of the mouth shall be conducted by an officer or officers or by authorized medical personnel of the SAME SEX as the arrestee under conditions so that the search cannot be observed by persons other than the officer or officers or authorized medical personnel conducting the search. [1983, c. 789, §1 (new).]

Answer 6

In Ga, there's a coverage against opposite intercourse strip searches, even yet it truly is allowed in emergency situations the place the protection of the corporation is in threat. there is no regulation against it, with the aid of fact the appropriate court docket has ruled that inmates don't have a incredible to privateness or a actual looking expectation of privateness at the same time as incarcerated.

Answer 7

NEVER it isagainst the law, but you know American's they think they are above the law they wrote.
Just my opinion on the end statement there.
but a male is not to search a female clothed or nude no matter what.

Answer 8

in the presence of another officer as witness just in case the prisoner files a complaint

Answer 9

Never, strip searches by law have to be done by a member of the same gender, if not it is sexual assault!

Answer 10

in the presence of another officer or if a female officer is not available.