On Tuesday 16th June Sex Matters will be in the High Court for a judicial-review hearing. Our claim is against the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the chief constable of British Transport Police (BTP), and concerns guidance both have issued regarding strip searches performed on trans-identifying detainees. The secretary of state for the Home Office is named as an interested party.
Our argument is that both NPCC’s and BTP’s guidance is unlawful because it permits a detainee to be strip-searched by an officer of the opposite sex on the basis that both the detainee and officer “consent” to this. The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), the primary legislation setting out police powers in England and Wales, specifies that any search that goes beyond the removal of outerwear must be carried out by someone of the same sex.
Read in full at https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/police-strip-searching-sex-matters-judicial-review/