S.L. 217.19 Art. 14Search.

(1) For reasons of security and safety, every detained person shall be searched when taken into custody by an officer, on his reception into a detention centre and subsequently as the officer in charge thinks necessary, or as the Chief Executive Officer of the Detention Services Agency may direct.

(2) A detained person shall be searched in as seemly a manner as is consistent with discovering anything concealed.

(3) No detained person shall be stripped and searched in the sight of another detained person, or in the sight or presence of an officer or other person of the opposite sex.

(4) Sub-regulations (2) and (3) apply to searches by officers acting in accordance with escort arrangements as well as to those exercising detention functions.