31Detention in police cells—search powers etc

31 Detention in police cells—search powers etc (1) The chief police officer may direct a police officer to conduct a scanning search, frisk search, ordinary search or strip search of a person detained at a police cell. (2) For the application of this section to a detainee (other than a young detainee), part 9.4 (Searches) and part 9.5 (Seizing property) apply as if the direction, search or seizure occurred under the relevant part in relation to a detainee at a correctional centre. (3) For the application of this section to a young detainee, the following provisions of the Children and Young People Act 2008 apply as if the direction, search or seizure occurred under the relevant part in relation to a young detainee at a detention place: (a) part 7.1 (Preliminary—ch 7); (b) part 7.2 (Searches generally); (c) part 7.3 (Scanning, frisking and ordinary searches); (d) part 7.4 (Strip searches—young detainees); (e) part 7.9 (Seizing property).