Background Part 2: Courts and Justice Section 30: Supreme Court Security Officers
49.The Lord Chancellor, in accordance with the Courts Act 2003, appoints and designates security officers for all courts in England and Wales, other than the UK Supreme Court. Security officers are required to comply with training requirements prescribed by secondary legislation. Once the Lord Chancellor designates an individual as a court security officer they have specific powers that they may exercise in court buildings, for example, the power of search, seizure of weapons and other prohibited articles and of restraint and/or removal from a court. Section 30 inserts into the CRA provisions that confer on the President of the Court the power to appoint and designate Supreme Court security officers who will exercise powers identical to those of other court security officers across England and Wales.