11ASearching of detainees

11A Searching of detainees

11A Searching of detainees

(1) For the purpose of ensuring the security, safety and good order of a detention centre, a juvenile justice officer may—

(a) search a detainee, and

(b) search a detainee’s room and any property in the room.

(2) A search of a detainee may be conducted by the following means only—

(a) running a hand-held metal detector (of a kind approved by the Secretary) over the detainee’s outer garments,

(b) a pat-down,

(c) a partially clothed search,

(d) scanning with an X-ray scanning device.

(3) A pat-down of a detainee means—

(a) searching the detainee by running the juvenile justice officer’s hands over the detainee’s outer garments, and

(b) examining anything worn or carried by the detainee that is conveniently removed by the detainee.

(4) A partially clothed search of a detainee means any of the following—

(a) requiring the detainee to remove clothes from the top or bottom half of the detainee’s body for examination of the clothes (and repeating the process for the other half of the detainee’s body),

(b) visually examining the detainee’s body,

(c) requiring the detainee to open the detainee’s mouth to enable it to be visually examined,

(d) examining the detainee’s removed clothes by touch.

(5) However, a juvenile justice officer conducting a partially clothed search may not—

(a) require the detainee to remove all of the detainee’s clothes at once, or

(b) search the detainee’s body cavities (other than the detainee’s mouth), or

(c) examine the detainee’s body by touch.

(6) A search under this clause must be conducted with due regard to the dignity, self-respect and well-being of the detainee and as quickly as is reasonably practicable.