I was reading an article on the BBC.com website that details an incident in Athens, Greece, where the police did a strip search on a suspect right in the middle of a public street. The suspect was ordered to drop his trousers and his underwear right there in the street! The event was captured in photographs from an office across the street. An investigation into the matter is being conducted, and the police officials say that any police officer who participated (I think the word used was “implicated” would be subject to disciplinary sanctions.

I just can’t imagine what the police were thinking, to force a strip search in the middle of a public street? Were they THAT worried about their own safety that they had to force a man to strip down buck naked? I find that hard to believe!