Criminal Investigation (Identifying People) Act 2002

In this section —

An application for an approval under this section to do a non‑intimate identifying procedure on a suspect must be made to another officer who is a senior officer and not involved in the investigation of the offence to which the proposed non‑intimate identifying procedure relates.

The application may be made by remote communication.

The application must —

if practicable be in writing;

name the suspect to whom it relates;

state the offence that the suspect is suspected of having committed;

specify the identifying particular that is sought and the non‑intimate identifying procedure by means of which it is to be obtained;

state the grounds on which the applicant suspects —

that the suspect has committed the offence; and

that the identifying particular sought will afford evidence of whether or not the suspect committed the offence.