Section 15, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) Any corrections officer may examine anything withinor being brought in or out of a correctional centre and may stop and search any vehicle or person within a correctional centre or going in or out of a correctional centre, or whether within or without a correctional centre any person who or any vehicle which is without authority close to any inmate or inmates if the corrections officer has reason to suspect that the person or vehicle is carrying a prohibited article or any property belonging to the Government in use in a (2) The senior corrections officer on duty in a correctional centre shall refuse admission to the correctional centre of any person who is not willing to be searched. (3) The senior corrections officer on duty in a correctional centre shall order any person within a correctional centre who refuses to be searched to leave the correctional centre and if such person refuses to leave, shall order his removal. 8 9 General powers and duties of officers Responsibility of corrections officer in charge of stores, etc. Cases where officers have powers of police Arrest of Power to examine persons or vehicles for prohibited articles. No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 14 No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 14 (4) If on stopping and searching any vehicle or person under subsection (1) a corrections officer finds any prohibited article or any property belonging to the Government in use in a correctional centre he shall arrest the person or the person on the vehicle who appears to have charge of the article or property and shall as soon as practicable cause that person to be handed over to a police officer or to be taken to the nearest police station. (5) Any search of a woman under this section shall be made by a female corrections officer with due regard to decency.