New state terror laws will allow Victorian Police to detain someone without their real name being on the detention orders.
Attorney-General Martin Pakula says under the beefed-up laws police will now be able to use a person's alias in an application for a preventative detention order.
"At the moment when police apply for a preventative detention order sometimes they're unaware of the exact name of the suspect because they know the suspect by an alias," Mr Pakula told reporters on Tuesday.
"And so under these changes they will be able to use the alias in the application for a preventative detention order."
Mr Pakula says the updated and strengthened laws will also allow police to have remote access to computers.
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Police will also be able to access computers remotely with a warrant, rather than have to covertly break into a house to access them.
Mr Pakula said police needed up-to-date powers in the legislation, which will be introduced to parliament on Tuesday.
"The counter-terrorism legislation also sunsets next March, so if we don't legislate to renew the legislation it will lapse," he said.
Under the new laws, police must apply for a revocation or variation of a preventative detention order when circumstances underpinning the original order application change.
