[2001] EWHC Admin 110

Provided a senior prison officer, before implementing a squat search on a group of prisoners, had the necessary information to give rise to reasonable grounds for suspicion that there could be concealment in the anal or genital area, then that was sufficient for the search to be lawful. There was no requirement that the searching officer had to be in possession of such information as long as he had been informed of the existence of a suspicion.

QBD (Admin) (Newman J)

16/02/2001