It was in March last year that a police officer conducted a body search of a boy in a town in Sörmland, where the boy was asked to take off his pants, among other things. Searching a child under the age of 15 in that way, without the prosecutor’s approval, was deemed wrong and the police were convicted of misconduct in both the District Court and the Court of Appeal.
It is now clear that HD grants leave to appeal – and that the case will thus be heard in the highest instance. HD takes up the case with the aim of defining where the boundary is between a body search and a body inspection, which normally requires a decision by the prosecutor.
The policeman was sentenced to a day’s fine for the crime.