Powers automatically conferred by covert search warrant
27N Powers automatically conferred by covert search warrant
A covert search warrant authorises the police officer named in the warrant:
to enter, without any occupier's knowledge, the subject place;
and
to impersonate another person for the purposes of executing the warrant; and
to use the force that is reasonably necessary for the purposes of entering and searching the subject place; and
to search the subject place for any kind of thing or class of thing described in the warrant; and
to break open any receptacle in or on the subject place for the purposes of that search if it is reasonably necessary to do so; and
to seize and detain any other thing found in the course of executing the warrant and that is connected with a serious indictable offence.
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