26B. Search by police officer for or of person in suicide or attempted suicide cases

A police officer may, without a search warrant —

The police officer in subsection (1) must, if reasonably practicable, conduct the search in person.

Whenever it is necessary to cause a woman to be searched under subsection (1)(b), the search must be made by a police officer who is a woman and with strict regard to decency.

The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 relating to searches pursuant to search warrants, with the necessary modifications, apply to a search made under this section.

Where a police officer executing any search under this section demands entry or access to a place liable to search under this section, the occupier or any person in charge of the place must allow the police officer free entry or access and provide all reasonable facilities for a search in it.

If free entry or access to that place cannot be obtained under subsection (4), it is lawful in any case for the police officer or other person executing the search to break open any outer or inner door or window of any place or to use any other reasonable means in order to gain entry or access into the place.

A police officer may break open a place to free himself or herself or any other person who, having lawfully gone inside to make a search under subsection (1)(a), is detained in it.