Transgender detainees undergoing police searches will be allowed to ask for officers of different sexes to frisk their top and bottom halves, under new guidelines.
The advice — designed to accommodate people who have not completed a full surgical transition — is among a series of protocols outlined in new official Police Scotland guidance issued on Wednesday.
The latest guidance suggests detainees, who are not necessarily accused or convicted of any crime, will be able to request what is called a “separate area search”.
A new guidance document explains that it “means that one half of their body will be searched by one biological sex officer and the other half of their body will be searched by a different biological sex officer.”
