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Non-intimate searches of detained personsU.K.

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26(1)Where a designation applies this paragraph to any person, he shall have the powers of a constable under section 54 of the 1984 Act (non-intimate searches of detained persons)—

(a)to carry out a search under that section of any person at a police station in the relevant police area or of any other person otherwise in police detention in that area; and

(b)to seize or retain, or cause to be seized or retained, anything found on such a search.

(2)Subsections (6C) and (9) of section 54 of that Act (restrictions on power to seize personal effects and searches to be carried out by a member of the same sex) shall apply to the exercise by a person to whom this paragraph is applied of any power exercisable by virtue of this paragraph as they apply to the exercise of the power in question by a constable.

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