Cap. 164 Art. 62Police archives. Extent of information. Right of comparison.

(1) The Police may hold, process and classify any information relevant to the commission of any crime in or outside Malta which information may be preserved by any system whatsoever, including in electronic format, subject to the provisions of any law on the protection of data.

(2) Such information may relate to fingerprints, photographs, measurements, blood-samples, intimate or non-intimate samples, patterns of criminal behaviours and methodology in the perpetration of an offence and similar details for the purposes of any future identification of offenders.

(3) The Police may, for the purpose of establishing evidence in the investigation into any criminal offence, compare any such information with any other information that may become available to it.