186Searches of arrested persons

186 Searches of arrested persons (1) A police officer may, on lawfully taking a person into custody in relation to an offence, search the person or the clothing that he or she is wearing and any property under his or her immediate control, if the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to do so— (a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is on the person or in his or her clothing or in that property a thing connected with the offence; or (b) for the purpose of preventing the concealment, loss or destruction of evidence of, or relating to, the offence. (2) A police officer may seize any thing that he or she suspects on reasonable grounds is a thing connected with an offence found as a result of a search in accordance with subsection (1).