# The Secure Training Centre Rules 1998, 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/472/rule/33 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/secure-training-centre-rules-1998/rule-33
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