SIA guidance on conducting searches
Published 16 September 2025
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Request
Please provide:
- the guidance referred to in section 2.2 of FOI 0497 [SIA training specification and licence suspension criteria], related to conducting personal searches
- the date of publication if the guidance is yet to published
- everything previously disclosed as part of FOI 0497, and anything else prepared or published since then
Response
The SIA holds the information that you have requested.
FOI Reference 0497 at section 2.2 requested more specific guidance on search procedures. The SIA confirmed that we were preparing this guidance for publication, so were not required to disclose it. The information was exempt because we are holding it with a view to its future publication in accordance with section 22(1)(a) Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I can confirm that we are still preparing this guidance for publication and are not required to disclose it. The information remains exempt because we are holding it with a view to its future publication in accordance with section 22(1)(a) Freedom of Information Act 2000.
In respect of providing everything previously disclosed as part of FOI 0497, the information you have requested is exempt under section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as the data is readily accessible within the public domain.
For ease of use, I have provided you with the link which will take you to our website and the location of the data: SIA training specification and licence suspension criteria.
I confirm that no further information has been published since the provision of the response to FOI Reference 0497.
[Ref: FOI 0566]