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Apologies if this is the incorrect forum. If I am leaving a store and the security alarm goes off do the security guard have the right to search my bags without my consent? I ask this as it happened to someone who was leaving a store yesterday, not me I hasten to add, and when that person refused the security guard took hold of her by the arm and pulled her back into the store. I am fairly sure that the alarm was activated by someone else actually entering the store and not the person leaving the store. I was always under the impression that the security people had no right to search you or your bags and certainly do not have the right to force you back into the store. Am I wrong?

Can someone please tell me exactly what powers store detectives/security guards have? Do they have the legal power to foricbly detain you? If the do have the legal power to detain you and they falsely accuse/detain you then who can you sue?

Hi, can anyone point me to the correct forum to ge advice on what security guards at venues have the right to do as my daughter was held for 2 hours at the bar she works in and her bag searched in front of customers, nothing found as she had nothing to hide, was asked to leave,escorted to her car,went to drive off humiliated,they closed the gates on her,took her car keys off her,said they had called police, she had no problems with this, after 2 hours gave her back her keys asked her to go and not come back. She had done nothing wrong but was falsly accussed with no evidence other that suspicion that was totally unfounded and not true. She had been just used a toilet block with 2 toilets in it and apparently after she had left the block security went in and found suspicious stuff on the cistern. My daughter does not take drugs and was working, she does not even know if it was the toilet she went into that they found something on. It is a public toilet used by everyone, security only knew her face as she was working there, and put 2 and 2 together and made 5. She is so humiliated at the accusation, never in her life would she ever think this could happen to her. Her 6 year old daughter had been at the venue only half hour before with her boyfriend. She is so thankful that she was not there at the time. We need to know if there is anything she can do to clear her name and to help prove she is not associated with whatever they say was found, she obviously went to the toilet at the wrong time. Her daughter was still at the venue when she went to the toilet. It was half an hour later that security came to the bar and searched her.