Tayside Police strip search officers criticised Officers at Tayside Police have been criticised for carrying out an unauthorised strip search of a woman. The woman had gone voluntarily to a police station after the car she was travelling in was stopped by officers. But the Police Complaints Commissioner (PCC) said the force was unable to provide any records of the search - or its authorisation by a supervisor. The watchdog said it now expected Tayside Police to make a "full apology" to the woman. Officers stopped the car in November 2008 because they suspected the driver and the woman - a passenger in the vehicle - had been drinking or taking drugs. The woman refused consent to a "roadside pat-down" by the two male officers, but agreed to go to a local police station to be searched. She was taken to a cell and strip-searched by two female officers after arriving at the station. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14323641 Started off well and the last paragraph clinched it for me <awayforawanksmiley>
