a Search and Seizure for Police and Prosecutors # HomeSearch and Seizure for Police and ProsecutorsWarrantless Searches and SeizuresSearching a Person ☰ Table of Contents Bookmark How to Use This Manual Search Warrant Affidavits Introduction Requirements for All Affidavits Confidential Informants Citizen-Informants Anonymous Informant or Crimestoppers Tip Controlled Buy Police Investigation or Reports Executing a Search Warrant Introduction Meeting the Knock and Announce Requirement Detaining and Searching People on the Premises to be Searched Seizure of Items Found in Plain View Warrantless Searches and Seizures Consent to Stop and Search Stopping a Person or Vehicle I. Community Caretaking Encounters II. Investigatory Stops III. Border Stops and Other Roadblocks Searching a Person I. Pat Downs II. Search a Person Incident to Arrest III. Inventory Search of a Person Searching a Vehicle I. Search of a Vehicle Incident to Arrest II. Inventory Search of an Impounded Vehicle III. Search of a Vehicle Based on Probable Cause plus Exigent Circumstances IV. Search of a Vehicle During a Border Patrol Stop V. Seizing Contraband or Other Evidence in Plain View During a Warrantless Search of a Vehicle Searching a Place I. Search Incident to Arrest II. Emergency Assistance Doctrine III. Probable Cause Plus Exigent Circumstances IV. Searching a Student on School Premises V. Searching the Home of a Person on Probation or Parole Search and Seizure of Electronic Documents Making an Arrest Searching a Person I. Pat Downs II. Search a Person Incident to Arrest III. Inventory Search of a Person
