to 'search people' and stuff - are not Trusted (by those paid to Hire such) to even possess Common Sense\ufffd .. surely a vanishing commodity anyway.. in a an era of increasing dumbth (?)
Thus they revert to Bureaucracy 101F The Remedial Course (8000 BCE ---> 2002 ACE), the willful application of Boolean logic, no matter WHAT the eyes see, the brain deduces.. yada yada.
We are ALL now experiencing what Anyone who ever was so destitute as to need Official help.. must abide on a daily basis: including having their refrigerator examined (putatively to see if it works? Naah - to preach how often it ought to be Cleaned. With smarmy accompaniment which only a petty-satrap can Do So Well)
HTH,
Ashton