BBC News, Wednesday, 20 July, 2005: Police strip to halt nudist crime
Police officers are set to strip off to help catch prowlers who are demanding sex from bathers on a nudist beach. By shedding their uniforms they can mingle with others using Studland Beach in Dorset, which has been a naturist resort for decades. Last summer, 16 people were arrested for outraging public decency.
Now officers want to deter strangers who have approached bathers after the resort was wrongly branded as a venue for exhibitionist sex, known as "dogging".
However, police chiefs say undercover constables may wear swimming costumes or trunks and will not be naked.
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