Cap. 9 Art. 355Conditions for road checks.

The Police may organise a road check where there are reasonable grounds for believing that a check on vehicles in or passing through a locality may lead to -

(a) the arrest of a person who has committed or is reasonably suspected of having committed or of being about to commit a serious crime or

(b) the discovery of anything the possession of which is prohibited or restricted by law or which is connected in any way whatsoever with the commission of a serious crime or which is evidence of any such crime; or

(c) the arrest of any person whose arrest has been ordered by a court or any other lawful authority or who is otherwise unlawfully at large; or

(d) the ascertainment that a person is not abiding by a condition lawfully imposed on him by a court; or

(e) the ascertainment of violations of any law regarding motor vehicles or traffic regulation; or

(f) the arrest, or ascertainment of whereabouts, of a person in respect of whom an alert has been entered in the Schengen Information System; or

(g) the discovery of any property in respect of which an alert has been entered in the Schengen Information System; or

(h) the detection of persons falling within the scope of Article 32(1)(c), (d) and (e) of Regulation (EU) 2018/ 1862 establishing the Schengen Information System: Provided that for the purposes of this article "serious crime" means any crime liable to the punishment of imprisonment.