Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 628E
628E. The European Delegated Prosecutors may order the
following investigative measures:
(a) request the assistance of the Police to search any
premises, land, means of transport, private home, clothes and
any other personal property or computer system and to take
measures necessary to preserve th e integrity or to avoid the lo ss
or contamination of evidence;
(b) request the assistance of the Police to obtain the
production of any relevant object or document either in its
original form or in some other specified form;
Cap. 586.
(c) request the assistance of the Police to obtain the
production of stored computer data, encrypted or decrypted,
either in their original form or in some other specified form,
including banking account data and traffic data in compliance
with the Data Protection Act ;
(d) request the courts to issue monitoring orders,
investigation orders, attachment orders and freezing orders
where there is reason to believe that the owner, possessor or
controller of the proceeds will seek to frustrate the judgment
ordering confiscation;
(e) request the competent authority to intercept
electronic communications to and from the suspect or accused
person, over any electronic communication means that the
suspect or accused person is using relative to the offences
established in articles 190C, 190E and 190G; and
(f) request the Police to track and trace an object by
technical means including the conduct of a controlled delivery
relative to offences established in articles 190C, 190E and
190G .
CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 391
Pre-trial arrest or
detention of
suspect.
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