Lock-up's okays

Here are some info which is "legal" (despite the sense of humiliating and breaching human rights), which i got from www.nst.com.my.

Anyway, while squatting may "help expel/discharge hidden objects", i don't see how ear-pulling can expel any. from where?! the ears maybe? or nose even? or other natural orifices which contract/relax upon ear-pulling?

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Meanwhile, it is learnt that ear squats in the nude, shocking as they may be, are allowed under police procedures.
The New Sunday Times learnt it was also "standard operating procedure" among enforcement agencies and in prisons in several countries.It is among other procedures, including "pat downs" or emptying of pockets, carried out at the time of arrest and before handcuffs are applied. A more thorough search is performed at the police station.

A strip search is when an individual under arrest is required to remove all clothing. This is to facilitate visual inspection of the body together with a search of the clothing.

A body cavity search (a form of strip search) is carried out when an individual under arrest would have the orifices (rectum, vagina, etc) examined for contraband, objects and drugs. It normally involves visual inspection or actual manual probing.

"Squatting is a form of body-cavity strip search which women undergo before being confined at an immigration detention centre, police lock-up or prison cell," a source said. It would seem that repeated squats are supposed to "force" women detainees to discharge concealed objects.

"In some instances, some of them are hosed down — with strong jets directed at them — to remove items hidden in locks of hair, etc."

This issue (to search or not) has been one which continues to trouble enforcement agencies, and in the US a majority of lawsuits were over strip and body cavity searches. "The source said strip and body cavity searches were performed as such acts were allowed and necessary."

Some may argue it is improper, but it applies to the daily operations at prisons. "However, the source said nobody talked about it or was willing to narrate their experiences.

Body and cavity searches are also common during Narcotics Department raids and, in some instances, officers use surgical gloves. However, there are "general rules" which apply to all strip and body cavity searches of arrested persons. Among them are that:

• a strip or body cavity search must be performed by officers of the same sex as the individual under arrest;
• officers of the opposite sex should not be allowed into the room where the search is being done;
• the room where such search acts are performed should provide privacy from outside observation to ensure dignity and a degree of privacy;
• a body cavity search which involves actual manual probing should be done by qualified personnel, except under urgent circumstances; and,
• individuals being searched should be asked if there were conditions, medical or otherwise, which may affect the search.