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Rule 33 Search

(1)

Every trainee shall be searched on his reception into a centre and subsequently as the governor thinks necessary.

(2)

A trainee shall be searched in as seemly a manner as is consistent with discovering anything concealed.

(3)

No trainee shall be stripped and searched—

(a)

without the authority of the governor;

(b)

in the presence of more than two officers; and

(c)

in the sight of another trainee or in the sight or presence of an officer not of the same sex.

(4)

A written record shall be kept of any search to which paragraph (3) above applies which shall specify—

(a)

the name of the trainee;

(b)

the reason for the search;

(c)

when the search was carried out;

(d)

who authorised the search and who carried it out; and

(e)

what, if anything, was found as a result of the search.