A Middelburg sales representative has been awarded R540 000 in damages after she was wrongfully arrested, in full public view, and then detained for 40 minutes at the local police station during which she was “strip-searched”
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After she reversed out of the driveway, she was stopped by two police officers who, after looking through her phone and searching her handbag and car — apparently looking for drugs — handcuffed her and took her to the police station where a female officer ordered her to strip to her underwear and searched her.
The officers had “taunted her” and at the police station they had said she must be searched by “the toughest one” - apparently referring to a female police captain.The judge said there was no denying that the arrest had been done in full view of the public and had gravely embarrassed and humiliated her.
The judge said the police had not been “circumspect” and had arrested her in a “dramatic fashion” in spite of her protests of innocence and her offer to follow them to the police station in her car.
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