Organised Crime Act 2015 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · General Provisions Relating to Ocpo and Fro
24. Powers of law enforcement officers to retain documents
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law enforcement officer
“law enforcement officer” means —(a)a police officer;(b)an officer of the Central Narcotics Bureau;(c)an immigration officer appointed under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1959;(d)a Commercial Affairs Officer appointed under section 64 of the Police Force Act 2004; or(e)any other public officer or class of public officers authorised in writing by the Minister for the purposes of this Act;
take and retain copies of, or extracts from, any document produced to a law enforcement officer pursuant to an OCPO or FRO; and
retain any document so produced for as long as he or she considers that it is necessary to retain the document (rather than any copy of it) for the purposes for which the document was obtained.
A law enforcement officer may retain any document produced to him or her pursuant to an OCPO or FRO until the conclusion of any legal proceedings if he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the document —
document
“document” means anything in which information of any description is recorded, whether in electronic or any other form;
may have to be produced for the purposes of those proceedings; and
might be unavailable unless retained.