In other to effectively administer justice, the law has cloth enforcement agents with certain rights and privileges, among which include but not limited to the power to conduct searches and seizing a suspect’s property in other to obtain evidence that will be used to prove their case during criminal trial. With the prevalence of cybercrimes, the issue of searches conducted on suspects has become rampant, and these have raised so many questions as to whether the Police has the right to search phones and other electronics device in a bid to obtain evidence against an accused, especially as it relate to cyber Crimes. It is in light of the above therefore, that this work seeks to critically examine searches in general with a bid to resolving these issues raised while examining both case laws and statutory provisions. This work is limited to Police Act and some relevant sections of the Cybercrimes Prohibition Act.