The Secure Training Centres (Escorts) (Amendment) Rules 1998

Made31st May 1998

Laid before Parliament8th June 1998

Coming into force15th June 1998

The Secretary of State, in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 19941, hereby makes the following Rules:

1.

These Rules may be cited as the Secure Training Centres (Escorts) (Amendment) Rules 1998 and shall come into force on 15th June 1998.

2.

In rule 2 of the Secure Training Centres (Escorts) Rules 19982, for paragraphs (4) and (5) there shall be substituted the following:

“(4)
An offender shall not be searched by an officer of the opposite sex.
(5)
At least one other person (being another officer or a constable) shall be present when an officer is searching an offender.
(6)
An offender shall not be stripped and searched in the sight or presence of any person other than the officer conducting the search and any other officer or constable present by virtue of paragraph (5) above.
(7)
An offender shall not be stripped and searched in the sight or presence of any person of the opposite sex.”.

Jack Straw

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

31st May 1998

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Secure Training Centres (Escorts) Rules 1998 so as to prohibit the searching of an escorted offender by an officer of the opposite sex or (where the offender is being stripped and searched) in the sight or presence of a person of the opposite sex.

To provide for the exceptional event where a second woman custody officer (authorised to perform escort functions in accordance with section 12 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) is unavailable, these Rules also allow for the second person present to be either a custody officer or a constable.