Body Searches: From Terry to Strip Search

As we all know, proper searching is an area of officer safety, as well as, an opportunity for complaints against officers. Knowing how to search people correctly is of vital importance. This is vital information to all officers who conduct searches, both patrol and corrections. Both male and female officers will benefit from this important training just as both patrol, corrections and detectives will as well. The subject of unique circumstance searching will be addressed by talking initiating searches against females by both male and female officers.

Topics Include:

• Proper search methods
• Opposite sex searches
• Common search mistakes
• Strip Searches
• Legal doctrine pertaining to different types of searches, including strip searches
• Same sex searches -Policy and Procedure
• Strip searches
• Policy and procedure