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objects, sketches, photographs, reports obtained, documents on measures and actionsundertaken, official notes, statements and other materials which may be of use for thesuccessful conduct of the proceedings. If after filing the criminal complaint the internalaffairs authorities learn of new facts, evidence or traces of the criminal offence, they arerequired to gather all necessary information and submit a report thereof to the publicprosecutor as an appendix to the criminal complaint.Article 227(1) Authorised officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs may deprive a person of libertywhere there exists any of the grounds referred to in Article 142 of this Code for orderingdetention, but are required to promptly escort such persons to the competentinvestigating judge, except in the case referred to in Article 229 of this Code. Whenbringing in the person the authorised officer of the internal affairs authority shall informthe investigating judge about the reasons for and the time of deprivation of liberty.(2) Persons deprived of liberty must be informed about their rights, as prescribed by theprovisions of Article 5 of this Code.(3) Where due to unforeseeable circumstances the internal affairs authority took longerthan eight hours to bring in the person deprived of liberty, he shall be in duty bound tosubstantiate the delay to the investigating judge, of which the investigating judge shallmake a note or a record. In that record the investigating judge shall also enter astatement made by the person deprived of liberty about the time and place of thedeprivation of liberty.Article 228(1) The investigating judge is required to immediately inform a person deprived of libertybrought before him that he is entitled to a defence counsel, and make it possible for thatperson to, in the presence of the judge, by using a telephone, telegraph or otherelectronic communicating device notify a defence counsel directly or via members of hisfamily or a third person, whose identity must be disclosed to the investigating judge, andif necessary also help the person to find a defence counsel.(2) Where a person deprived of liberty does not secure the presence of a defencecounsel within 24 hours when that possibility was provided to him within the meaning ofparagraph 1 of this Article, of declares that he does not wish to have a defence counsel,the investigating judge is required to interrogate him without delay.(3) If in the case of mandatory defence (Article 71 paragraph 1) a person deprived ofliberty does not retain a defence counsel within 24 hours of the time of being instructedabout that right, or declares that he does not wish to retain a defence counsel, a defencecounsel shall be assigned to him ex officio.(4) Immediately following the interrogation, the investigating judge shall decide whetherto release the person deprived of liberty or to order detention.