Best Criminal Defense Lawyers in Etobicoke, ON

There are four types of searches a police officer can conduct on someone they arrest or detain: a pat down search, a frisk search, a strip search and a body cavity search. Strip searches and body cavity searches are intrusive searches of the person and have been described by the Supreme Court of Canada has humiliating and degrading. In 2001, the Supreme Court laid out a clear set of rules that the police must follow in conducting these searches. Police forces across Ontario still get it wrong. The police require reasonable grounds to believe an individual is concealing evidence or a weapon in their body before conducting the search. However, the police often strip search individuals for other, unlawful reasons. If you've been the subject of a strip search or body cavity search, and the search is found to be illegal by a Judge, you may "win" your case on this point alone.