Taking notes is the investigation of the parties by the police station, and no third party can be present. So lawyers can't accompany clients to take notes.
Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 111 Reports, complaints and reports may be made in writing or orally. The staff who accept the oral report, complaint or report shall make a written record, which shall be signed or sealed by the informant, complainant and informant after being correctly read out.
The staff who accept the complaint and report shall explain the legal responsibility of false accusation and frame-up to the complainant and informant. However, as long as it is not fabricating facts and evidence, even if the facts of the accusation and report are different, or even false accusation, it should be strictly distinguished from false accusation.
Public security organs, people's procuratorates or people's courts shall ensure the safety of informants, complainants, informants and their close relatives. Informants, complainants and informants who are unwilling to disclose their names and report, accuse and report their acts shall keep them confidential.
Second, the police station to accept the case procedures
1. The public security organ shall immediately accept a citizen's abduction, report, accuse, report or the criminal suspect's surrender, inquire about the situation and make a record.
2, the public security organs to accept complaints and reports of staff, should explain the legal responsibility of false accusation and framed to the accuser and informer. 3. The public security organ shall ensure the safety of kidnappers, informants, accusers, informants and their close relatives. If the traffickers, informants, accusers and informants are unwilling to disclose their names and the acts of abducting, reporting, accusing and reporting, they shall keep them confidential.
4. The public security organ shall timely review the accepted cases. For cases that are considered to have criminal facts and belong to their own jurisdiction, they should be placed on file and investigated immediately; If it does not belong to its own jurisdiction, it shall be handed over to the competent authority for handling according to law; If it is considered that there is no criminal fact, or the circumstances of the crime are obviously minor, it is not necessary to pursue criminal responsibility, or there are other circumstances in which criminal responsibility is not pursued according to law, the case shall not be filed.
5. If a complainant decides not to file a case, the public security organ shall make a notice of not filing a case and deliver it to the complainant within 7 days. If the complainant refuses to accept the decision not to file a case, he may apply to the original public security organ for reconsideration within 7 days after receiving the Notice of Not Filing a Case. The public security organ that originally decided shall make a decision within 10 days after receiving the application for reconsideration, and notify the complainant in writing. If the victim thinks that the public security organ will not file a case for investigation, he may request the people's procuratorate to file a case for supervision.
The above is "Can a lawyer accompany the police station to take notes?" We can understand that taking notes means that the police station investigates the parties, and no third party can be present. So lawyers can't accompany clients to take notes.