1A judicial police officer or an authorized person, may be engaged to make a simulated purchase of items that are prohibited to be produced, owned, held or traded, or items that derive from a crime or the simulation of a corruptive act or to carry out other simulated acts, in order to detect and collect evidence on persons suspected of committing a crime, by concealing the cooperation with the police or their duty as police employees.
2These actions are carried out with the authorization and under the supervision of the prosecutor, overseeing the investigations, or of the prosecutor who has territorial competence on the place where the action will take place. After carrying out such actions, the judicial police must submit to the prosecutor all the evidence collected and a summary report.
3A criminal act should not be provoked, by abetting a person to commit a crime, which he would not have committed, if police had not intervened. Where provocation is proven, the results cannot be used.
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