Part 1Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending
Management of residents: Searches
63Search of residents and residence
For the purpose of detecting a prohibited item or an item that may endanger the health and safety of a resident or any other person, the residence manager, a staff member of the residence, or a corrections officer may conduct—
- a search of any resident:
- a search of any item carried by, or in the possession of, any resident:
- a search of the residence or any part of the residence:
- a search of any item that is in, or is taken or delivered to, the residence.
A search conducted under subsection (1) may take the form of a rub-down search, a scanner search, or an x-ray search, but may only include a strip search of the resident if the person conducting the search has reasonable grounds for believing that the resident has in his or her possession any prohibited item or an item that may endanger the health and safety of a resident or any other person.
Every resident may be strip searched by the residence manager, a staff member of the residence, or a corrections officer when the resident enters or leaves the residence or the prison within which the residence is physically located.
Despite subsections (1) and (2), a corrections officer may not search a resident while the resident is in the residence.
Despite subsection (2), a resident may not be strip searched under that subsection by a person other than the residence manager without the prior approval of that manager.
Any search conducted under this section must comply with any guidelines or instructions issued that are relevant to the conduct of searches.