Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002

quickly run his or her hands over the person’s outer clothing, and

require the person to remove his or her coat or jacket or similar article of clothing and any gloves, shoes, socks and hat (but not, except in the case of a strip search, all of the person’s clothes), and

examine anything in the possession of the person, and

pass an electronic metal detection device over or in close proximity to the person’s outer clothing or anything removed from the person, and

do any other thing authorised by this Act for the purposes of the search.