Police Strip Search (Photo : YouTube)
Forced stripping removes not only the clothes of the victim but also their dignity as a person, such as what happened to a male lawyer who had a disagreement with court policemen over suspicion he secretly recorded conversations with judges.
If the incident has been filmed, it could land the culprit in hot water, like the 48-year-old Shenzhen police officer who threatened to force two sisters to go naked while he was interrogating them. However, one of the women, aged 24 and 27, secretly recorded the incident and posted it online of Friday, reported The South China Morning Post.
After the film clip became viral and the officer involved the subject of hate by netizens, the local police chief had to publicly apologize to the sisters, according to Southern Metropolis News.
The two women were walking in Baoan District of Shenzhen when the officer stopped them for lacking identification documents and resisting being investigated. The office suspected they were gay men and wanted to prove it by asking them to strip.
He then threatened to detain the two with robbers, with sexually transmitted diseases and thieves. One of the two sisters, whom the police interrogated for one hour and released without charge, outwitted the officer by secretly recording the policeman on her smartphone without the cop noticing it.
“I saw the footage and only anger could describe my reaction,” the Southern Metropolitan News quoted Zhou Zhaoxing, chief of Baoan District. He called what the officer did as “uncivilized and humiliating personal attack” on the sisters. Now, the erring police officer has been suspended and ordered to undergo more training while his case is under investigation.
A number of Chinese con artists actually dress as women, meet men on dating apps and drug and rob their victims in a hotel room. Daily Mail reported that on such suspect, Tang, a 48-year-old former hair stylist, was arrested in October 2015 in Chengdu for drugging victims and then stealing their personal belongings.
