חוק לתיקון פקודת בתי הסוהר (מס' 68), התשפ"ה–2025Law to Amend the Prisons Ordinance (No. 68), 2025 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Prisons Ordinance [New Version], 1971 grants a prison officer the powers vested in a police officer with regard to arrest without a warrant and detention of a suspect at the scene under the Criminal Procedure Law (Enforcement Powers – Arrests), 1996, while carrying out his duties and for that purpose, within the area of the prison and its surroundings, its facilities outside its boundaries and their surroundings, as well as while escorting a prisoner outside the prison or while pursuing an escaped prisoner. As part of Amendment No. 68, it was established that the powers of a prison officer, while carrying out his duties and for the purpose of carrying out his duties, in the immediate vicinity of the prison or of Israel Prison Service facilities outside its boundaries, will be expanded to also include the following powers: giving a reasonable order to a person preventing a prison officer from performing his duties, demanding identification from a person, conducting a search of a person's body or of a vehicle using reasonable force in the event of refusal, and seizing an object for the purpose of maintaining the security of the prison and those within it. In addition, a duty of identification by the prison officer when using his powers is regulated. It was further established that these powers will also be granted to a prison officer while escorting a prisoner outside the prison or while pursuing an escaped prisoner, and to a prison officer who is a member of the central intervention and escort unit or the special unit for taking control of prisoners while he is guarding an employee of the Israel Prison Service, provided that their use is directed at a person reasonably suspected of being about to endanger the prisoner, to help him escape, to pass him a dangerous prohibited item, or to harm a prison officer.

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