NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller says strip-search of girl at festival 'doesn't make me happy'

Fuller says he’s ‘disappointed’ with the way powers were used but young people should have ‘a little bit of fear’ of police

The New South Wales police commissioner, Mick Fuller, says he was “disappointed” by the conduct of officers who strip-searched a 16-year-old girl at a music festival in 2018 but has again stood by the use of the controversial police power.

In an interview with the ABC on Tuesday Fuller conceded revelations in the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (Lecc) hearings last month which revealed an allegedly illegal search of a 16-year-old girl at the 2018 Splendour in the Grass festival “doesn’t make me happy”.

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