Section 14 in The West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992
14. Security staff of correctional home.—
(1)For proper security of correctional homes and of the staff thereof and of the prisoners confined therein, there shall be the following categories of security staff in each correctional home:—(i)one chief head warder;(ii)one or more head warders as may be considered necessary having regard to the usual population of the home;(iii)such number of gate warders as may be considered necessary;(iv)such number of other warders as may be considered necessary.(2)The gate warder shall guard the gate of the correctional home, open and close the gate according to necessity, and perform other consequential and incidental duties. He may at any time stop and search any person suspected of bringing any prohibited article into the correctional home or of carrying out any property belonging to the correctional home and shall report to the Chief Controller of Correctional Services about the discovery of such article or property.(3)Any officer of the correctional home may, in the case of any suspicion about the entry into the correctional home of any prohibited article or about the carrying out any property belonging to the correctional home, stop and search or cause to be searched any person suspected or bringing such prohibited article or of carrying out such property and shall immediately report to the Chief Controller of Correctional Services about the discovery of such article or property.(4)The uniform of the security staff shall be such as may be prescribed.
