263Strip searches—rules about young detainees’ clothing

263 Strip searches—rules about young detainees’ clothing (1) A strip search of a young detainee must not involve— (a) the removal from the young detainee of more clothes than is necessary and reasonable for the search; or (b) the removal from the young detainee of more clothes at any time than is necessary and reasonable for the search; or (c) without limiting paragraph (b), both the upper and lower parts of the young detainee’s body being uncovered at the same time. (2) A young detainee who has been strip-searched must be allowed to dress in private as soon as the search is finished. (3) If clothing from a young detainee is seized during a strip search, the youth detention officer conducting the search must ensure that the young detainee is left with, or given, reasonably appropriate clothing to wear.

Part 7.5 Body searches—young