Hong Kong Regulations

PRISON RULES - RULE 9

Searching

(3) GENERAL TREATMENT

   (a)  Admission and Discharge

(1) Every prisoner shall be searched on admission and at such times
subsequently as the Superintendent or other officer in charge may direct, and
all articles for the possession of which no authority has been given shall be
taken from him.

(1A) The Medical Officer, or a Chief Officer, Principal Officer, Officer or
Nurse, authorized by the Medical Officer, may, for the purpose of paragraph
(1), search the rectum, nostrils, ears and any other external orifice of a
prisoner. (L.N. 2 of 1974)

(2) The searching of a prisoner shall be conducted with due regard to decency
and self-respect, and in as seemly a manner as is consistent with the
necessity of discovering any concealed articles.

(3) No prisoner shall be stripped and searched in the sight of another
prisoner unless a senior officer considers it necessary in the interests of
the security of a prison or the safety of any person. (L.N. 353 of 1981)