The special investigative measures applied by the police in most of the cases represent interference in the private life of people, but without these it will be impossible to fight crime, lecturer of the National Intelligence and Security Institute of the Security and Intelligence Service Vitalie Sîli stated in a roundtable meeting staged by the Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research.

According to the presented statistics, over 5,000 special investigative measures were authorized last year, including wiretapping, visual following and supervision of the domicile, IPN reports.

Vitalie Sîli said that without such measures, it would be hard or impossible to identify and combat criminal activities owing to the hidden methods used by offenders in the commission of crimes. Wiretapping, visual following and supervision of the domicile are among the most frequently used methods.

Lecturer of the Police Academy “Ștefan cel Mare” Boris Glavan said the law on special investigative activity runs counter to other acts and the investigation officers often cannot do their job. If they act in accordance with the law based on which they work, another law prevents them from fulfilling their duties and they can be thus penalized or even fired for this.

According to Valeriu Cuşnir, university professor at the Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research, the current law allows for exaggerations. Until 2012, the applied special investigative measures were public, but now these are used rather in secret.