To realize a pocket search light that can be carried handily and that has sufficiently bright horizontal irradiation when to carry out identification activities in an outbreak of incidents and accidents, and that can be used for the investigation of blood, body fluid, or the like.

This pocket search light is constituted of a pocket search light main body composed of an illumination part formed in a roughly rectangular shape and a handle part formed in roughly the center site of the illumination part, at least 5 or more of light emitting diodes and ultraviolet light emitting diodes installed to be positioned in the illumination part, and a lighting circuit provided with a changing switch with which these five or more of the light emitting diodes and the ultraviolet light emitting diodes can be turned on and off arbitrarily.