Everyone's afraid of breaching it when doing their jobs - even the police The Law Commission, a government law reform body, published a report on search warrants in October 2020 that highlighted police fears about breaching the CMA while investigating online crimes. That report [PDF] recommended reform of the act for three reasons: The first reason accords with the observation made by the Law Society and which we have endorsed elsewhere: it would be beneficial to both the individual subject to a warrant and investigators, to have clarity on the powers available and the extent of them. The second reason is that the limits on the use of the power could then be made explicit in its statutory formulation.