Never forget that Australian cops constantly ask for new powers with the express goal of turning Australia into a police state.
Police are always the first to throw in with the fascists because they are the fascists. You only need to look at how they treat climate protesters vs how they treat literal nazi protesters.
Australia, or at least NSW, is a police state. You are getting filmed, tracked, your browsing history saved, your financial purchases archived, you need government ID regularly updated which requires entering your biometrics into a database.
You need to apply for permits to protest and they are routinely denied. Move along and non association orders are routinely employed to silence dissent, police extort cultural events for ludicrous fees, use dogs which have been demonstrated to not work as justification for routine searching of the public. We are already here.
This /is/ what living in a police state is. No it’s not as bad as it could get but we are already there.
To confirm, are strip searches required to be done by the same gender?
There are many requirements in the police training manual. For instance anyone being searched at all is meant to be taken somewhere private and their dignity preserved. I assume most people have seen this not happen.
Same gender is one such requirement.
