The role of lawyers in the stage of public security investigation

Legal analysis: At the stage of public security investigation, the role of lawyers is as follows: 1. Meet with criminal suspects and provide them with the above-mentioned help during the investigation stage; 2. A lawyer can learn more about the relevant case from the examination organ of the procuratorate; 3. Lawyers can put forward defense opinions to the procuratorial organs on the innocence of the criminal suspect, the light crime, and this crime and that crime.

Legal basis: Provisions on Procedures of Public Security Organs Handling Criminal Cases

Forty-second public security organs should ensure that defense lawyers engage in the following professional activities according to law during the investigation stage:

(a) to the public security organs to understand the criminal suspect accused of the crime and the case, and put forward opinions;

(two) to meet and communicate with the criminal suspect, and to understand the case from the criminal suspect;

(3) Providing legal aid and acting as an agent for complaints and accusations against criminal suspects;

(4) applying for changing the compulsory measures against criminal suspects.

Article 43 When interrogating a criminal suspect for the first time or taking compulsory measures against him, the public security organ shall inform the criminal suspect that he has the right to entrust a lawyer as a defender, and inform him that if he fails to entrust a defense lawyer due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he may apply for legal aid from a legal aid institution. Information should be recorded.

If a criminal suspect in the same case entrusts the same defense lawyer, or if two or more criminal suspects who are not involved in the case but commit a crime entrust the same defense lawyer, the public security organ shall require them to change their defense lawyers.