Singapore legislation
Regulation 12
of Prisons (Police Lock-ups and Temporary Lock-ups) Regulations 2013
Regulation 12
Visitors may be searched
Subregulation 1
Every visitor to a police lock‑up or temporary lock-up shall —
furnish the officer‑in‑charge, or an authorised officer, of the police lock‑up or temporary lock-up, with the visitor’s name and address; and
permit the officer‑in‑charge, or an authorised officer, of the police lock‑up or temporary lock-up, to search the visitor’s person and personal property.
Subregulation 2
A search conducted under paragraph (1)(b) —
shall not take place in the presence of any lock‑up prisoner of, or of another visitor to, the police lock‑up or temporary lock-up;
shall be conducted with due regard to decency; and
if to be conducted on a female, shall only be conducted by an authorised officer who is female.
Subregulation 3
A lock‑up officer of a police lock‑up or temporary lock-up may deny a visitor admission to the police lock‑up or temporary lock-up, if —
the visitor refuses to be searched; or
the lock‑up officer is of the opinion that the visitor’s admission would be prejudicial to the security or good order of the police lock‑up or temporary lock-up.
Subregulation 4
Where a lock-up officer denies any visitor admission to a police lock-up or temporary lock-up under paragraph (3), the lock-up officer must record the grounds of the lock-up officer’s refusal in a report to the officer-in-charge of that police lock-up or temporary lock-up.