1If an employee of the State Police becomes aware of a criminal offence referred to in Article 75/a of the Criminal Procedural Code, he or she shall immediately inform the National Bureau of Investigation. The Director of the National Bureau of Investigation shall issue a regulation on the method for informing the National Bureau of Investigation.

2After receiving the information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Special Prosecution Office may, if it assesses that a criminal offence has been committed within its competence, assume work on investigation of the case. It immediately reports this to the police and to the prosecutor’s office which had been proceeding in the case up to that point, requesting from them the case incompetence and the receiving of the procedural acts which have been drafted during the investigation, in accordance with the Criminal Procedures Code.

3If the prosecutor in the Special Prosecution Office considers that there is insufficient evidence of criminal offences for which the Office is competent, it shall report this to the Chief Special Prosecutor. The Chief Special Prosecutor shall then inform the respective prosecution office that it should continue the procedure, and shall inform any other relevant structure.

4Any Officer of the Albanian State Police or an agent or officer of the Judicial Police shall follow the orders issued by a Prosecutor of the Special Prosecution Office or by the Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime Courts, on conducting searches or make arrests in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code, when the order provides that it shall be executed by them. They shall comply with any other task or legal requirement ordered by a Special Prosecutor or by the Chief Special Prosecutor.