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Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000
sec.643Use of electronic screening devices in watch-houses
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### sec.643 Use of electronic screening devices in watch-houses
This section applies if the system for the security of a watch-house involves the use of 1 or more of the following electronic screening devices—
a walk-through detector;
an X-ray machine;
a hand held scanner.
A watch-house officer may ask the entrant to do 1 or more of the following—
to walk through a walk-through detector;
to pass the entrant’s belongings through an X-ray machine;
to allow the watch-house officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant;
to allow the watch-house officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant’s belongings.
s 643 ins 2006 No. 26 s 61
(sec.643-ssec.1) This section applies if the system for the security of a watch-house involves the use of 1 or more of the following electronic screening devices— a walk-through detector; an X-ray machine; a hand held scanner.
(sec.643-ssec.2) A watch-house officer may ask the entrant to do 1 or more of the following— to walk through a walk-through detector; to pass the entrant’s belongings through an X-ray machine; to allow the watch-house officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant; to allow the watch-house officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant’s belongings.
- (a) a walk-through detector;
- (b) an X-ray machine;
- (c) a hand held scanner.
- (a) to walk through a walk-through detector;
- (b) to pass the entrant’s belongings through an X-ray machine;
- (c) to allow the watch-house officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant;
- (d) to allow the watch-house officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant’s belongings.