Searches

Search of persons

Practice Note: Stop and search powers explains statutory powers of stop and search under PACE 1984 Code A. It also highlights which powers require reasonable suspicion before being used, which require authorisations, the minimum requirements of conduct during a search, steps to be taken before a search and what must be recorded following a search in accordance with PACE Code A.

Practice Note: Search of a person on arrest explains the law on the search of a person under PACE 1984 and in accordance with PACE 1984 Code A, Code B and Code C. It deals with search on arrest away from a police station under PACE 1984, s 32 and what is meant by ‘reasonable grounds’. It includes information on conducting a search away from a police station and conducting a non-intimate search at a police station under PACE 1984, s 54. It covers the law on strip searches and how they should be conducted. Finally it deals with the law in relation to searches to establish a person’s identity.

Practice Note: Intimate searches explains the procedure for conducting intimate searches of persons under