Search and seizure - national proceedings

Republic of Poland

Poland - Code of Criminal Procedure 1997 (2003) EN

Article 217. § 1. Objects which may serve as evidence, or be subject to seizure in order to secure penalties regarding property, penal measures involving property or claims to redress damage, should be surrendered when so required by the court, the state prosecutor, and in cases not amenable to delay, by the Police or other authorised agency.

§ 2. A person holding the objects subject to surrender shall be called upon to release them voluntarily, but in the event of refusal, the seizure may be effected.

§ 3. If the surrender is demanded by an agency other than the state prosecutor, it shall produce to the holder of the objects liable to surrender, an order of the court or of the state prosecutor or, if it has not been possible to obtain the order prior to seizure, a

Article 585.
3) Inspection and searches of dwellings and persons, confiscation of material objects and their delivery abroad,

Rome Statute

Article 93 Other forms of cooperation

1. States Parties shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Part and under procedures of national law, comply with requests by the Court to provide the following assistance in relation to investigations or prosecutions:

(h) The execution of searches and seizures;