Legal basis: Provisions of Public Security Organs on Safeguarding Police Law Enforcement Authority
Article 13 When the public security organs handle criminal cases and public security cases that infringe on the police's law enforcement authority, the legal department should intervene in advance according to the complexity of the situation and the severity of the consequences, strengthen examination and control, guide the case's characterization, evidence collection and handling, and ensure that the facts of the case are clear, the evidence is conclusive, the procedures are legal and the law is applied accurately.
Article 16 The public security organ shall, according to the facts, circumstances and consequences of the act, comprehensively consider the subjective and objective factors, objectively evaluate the nature of the police act, distinguish the faults, flaws and accidents in law enforcement, and make a determination of responsibility in accordance with laws and regulations.
If the police perform their duties according to law, which is influenced by subjective cognition, objective conditions and external factors, causing certain losses and negative effects, or making mistakes, and the police do not intentionally violate laws and regulations in performing their duties, and find and correct mistakes in time, and actively take measures to avoid or mitigate the harmful consequences and effects, the public security organ shall lighten, reduce or exempt the investigation of police responsibility, or put forward suggestions to procuratorial organs and judicial organs to lighten, reduce or exempt the investigation of police criminal responsibility.