Will formatting an iPhone remove any police spyware?

Recently got my iPhone back from the police and I'm paranoid they put something on my phone to spy on me, would formatting and updating from iOS 6 to iOS 7 get rid of ANY spyware or files on the phone?

Take out the battery and check for a tracker.

There's no iphone spyware, nothing to worry about. Assuming you haven't jailbroken it of course.

Surely that would be illegal?
Anyway I think restoring it would help. But then again the police are going to be smarter than that

You sure can. AS LONG AS YOU FORMAT it will write over all current data and install everything as if it were a brand new device fresh out of the box!

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