Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if—

a watch-house officer reasonably considers it necessary to make a request under subsection (2) in relation to an entrant or the entrant’s belongings, whether or not the entrant or belongings have been subjected to electronic screening; and

the watch-house officer tells the entrant the reasons for making the request.

The watch-house officer may ask the person to do 1 or more of the following—

allow the watch-house officer to inspect the entrant’s belongings;

remove 1 or more outer garments worn by the entrant as stated by the watch-house officer and allow the watch-house officer to inspect the garments;

remove all articles from the entrant’s clothing and allow the watch-house officer to inspect them;

open an article for inspection and allow the watch-house officer to inspect it;

allow the watch-house officer, or another adult assisting the officer, to touch the garments the entrant is wearing for the purpose of the officer inspecting the entrant’s belongings;

open a vehicle or a part of it for inspection and allow the watch-house officer to inspect it;

remove an article from the vehicle as specified by the watch-house officer and allow the watch-house officer to inspect it.

In this section—inspect, an article, includes handle the article, open it and examine its contents.