Modern Tendencies of Police Action in Criminal Procedural Legislation of Germany
Keywords:
police, preliminary proceedings, legitimacy, international standardAbstract
The comparative analysis of the criminal procedural laws of Europe implies modern tendencies of consistency, as well as the pretensions of reaching the ideal of justice as an international standard. The segment of consistency can be best observed through the analysis of criminal procedural institutes, which are to a large extent taken from the German criminal procedural legislation, including the criminal procedural legislation of the Republic of Serbia (Principle of Opportunity, etc.), while when it comes to the implementation of the international standards, the police stands out as an extremely important subject of the prior, or investigating the criminal procedure of the Federal Republic of Germany, which successfully meets all challenges of modern society, which once again shows the importance of said subject for achieving efficiency of criminal procedure. Setting the contemporary foundations of the police procedures in Germany, alongside the implementation of elements of Anglo-Saxon legal system, determine the determinants of an adequate legislative framework and legitimacy of the police, which, viewed from the perspective of the author, determine the following questions: First, the police as the key subject of previous criminal proceeding (introductory considerations); Secondly, the correlation of the public prosecutor and the police as an instrument of efficiency of criminal procedure; Thirdly, the police and the international standard of the deprivation of liberty; the legitimacy of the German police and the concluding observations.
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