What are your rights when being searched by police?

You must allow an officer to scan you in these approved zones, or there is a risk of being charged with obstructing police or another offence.

“The police officer conducting the wanding does not have to have any reasonable suspicion of an offence having occurred, and failure to comply with the scanning is itself an offence,” Griffith University Criminology Institute director Janet Ransley says.

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“If the scanner goes off, the person has to submit a search of themselves and their…