They do not under any circumstances have the right to remove something of your partners from his person, did they ask him to empty his pockets out or did he do it himself??? Every company has to have a grievance and discplinary procedure and the previous posts are correct, if they say they have cctv of him he has a right to see it. If you partner isn't in a UNION (silly person) they do a dpa reqest (data protection act), ask for all information held on him including the alledged cctv footage of him, put it in writing and deliver it by hand or by recorded delivery. they have to provide it by law, also tell him to get a recipt for what was taken off him and put it in righting that he wants to raise a formal grievance aginst both the company and against that maanger for bullying and harrassement.