South Australian Current Regulations

POLICE REGULATIONS 2014 - REG 82

82—Search of prisoners

        (1)         Immediately after a prisoner is accepted into custody at a police station on a charge of committing an offence, the responsible officer for the police station must cause the prisoner to be searched in accordance with these regulations and general or special orders.

        (2)         A search of a prisoner must, wherever practicable, be made by a person of the same sex as the prisoner.

        (3)         The person searching a prisoner must remove from the prisoner everything that might—

            (a)         assist the prisoner to escape; or

            (b)         be used to cause injury or harm to the prisoner or any other person; or

            (c)         be used to damage property.

        (4)         If a prisoner objects to the retention by SA Police of an article taken from the prisoner and the responsible officer for the police station considers that there is no valid reason for its retention, the article may be returned to the prisoner.