Every day, detention officers are responsible for searching inmates for contraband. Whether for facility security or officer safety, the importance of searches cannot be understated. Weapons, drugs, and cell phones being smuggled into detention facilities can have dire consequences for an agency's detention officers and other inmates in the detention facility. This lesson plan will present the importance of contraband control and the procedures for conducting body searches on inmates. This lesson will also discuss when a body search can be conducted and when they are not authorized.