Singapore legislation
Regulation 11
of Prisons (Police Lock-ups and Temporary Lock-ups) Regulations 2013
Regulation 11
Search of lock‑up prisoners
Subregulation 1
A lock‑up prisoner may be physically searched by an authorised officer with due regard to decency, except that a female lock‑up prisoner shall only be searched by an authorised officer who is female.
Subregulation 2
An authorised officer searching a lock‑up prisoner may use such equipment as may be approved by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police for the purpose of the search.
Subregulation 3
Except with the express approval of the officer‑in‑charge of a police lock-up or temporary lock-up —
no lock‑up prisoner of the police lock‑up or temporary lock-up may retain possession of any personal property while the lock-up prisoner is confined in that police lock‑up or temporary lock-up; and
all of the personal property of each lock‑up prisoner of the police lock‑up or temporary lock-up shall be delivered to the lock‑up officer appointed for that police lock‑up or temporary lock-up for the period of the lock-up prisoner’s confinement in the police lock‑up or temporary lock-up.
Subregulation 4
The lock‑up officer appointed for a police lock‑up or temporary lock-up may destroy any personal property delivered to the lock-up officer under paragraph (3)(b) that is of a perishable or dangerous nature.