The Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito warned yesterday, Monday 10 June, that only judges can authorize phone tapping, and that anyone else who does it is acting illegally
Speaking at the beginning of a regional training course “Telecommunications Monitoring” he confirmed that phone tapping was a threat to individual liberties and was usually perpetrated for blackmail and extortion in sensitive cases such as relationship issues, and business and industrial espionage.
However, he went on to say that phone tapping was an indispensable investigation tool in the area of organized crime, which was why the workshop would help to define how it could be used.
He said that they needed to analyze the probative value of the information received and to study how the public prosecutor could use other methods of proof to lead to a trial. He said that the Public Prosecutor’s office had to use all within their power to carry out effective investigations, to increase the safety of the public, within the law.
The course was attended by public prosecution services from the member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and aimed to train specialists in the application of investigation techniques using telephone tapping to combat organized crime.
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