The Research Of The Police To Testify In Court

In common law countries, to testify is an obligation and responsibility of the police, in their daily work in the police, to testify widespread. Academic research in recent years, China’s law academic experts are increasingly concerned about the issue of police officers to testify in court, police testify research has become the focus of academic research, the public security organs Police Witness also frequently reported instances. From a theoretical point of view of criminal proceedings, police testify in the trial is to build lawsuit centered structure and implement the exclusionary rule will inevitably require the hearsay rule and direct rhetoric principles. Establish police witness system strictly regulate the legal action for the public, prosecutors, law three bodies, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the defendant, to achieve procedural justice has its unique value and significance.2012 revised "Code of Criminal Procedure," the police witness system clearly written therein. However, the new "Code of Criminal Procedure," the police to testify system makes provision for only a framework, the specific content is still rather vague, such as how to cope with the constraints of prosecutors and police, police testified how to define the scope, how to ensure that police witness system implementation were not clearly, there will be many problems in practice inevitably. Therefore, the substantive scope of the problem of police testifying, witnesses eligibility, rules of procedure, security system subject to further study.