If someone is arrested, do family members need a lawyer? How to recruit?

1. When to hire a lawyer Some criminal cases are handled in prime time, especially those minor crimes such as drunk driving, intentional injury, traffic accidents, allowing drugs, and small occupation by non-public personnel. If you hire a lawyer in time and handle it properly, you will achieve unexpected results; If hiring a lawyer misses the golden processing time, it will be much more difficult for lawyers to deal with it later. 2. Who can entrust a lawyer? A criminal suspect has the right to hire a lawyer by himself or by entrusting others. If a criminal suspect is detained, his close relatives may hire a lawyer for him; If there are no close relatives, other relatives or friends may also hire lawyers on their behalf. (Close relatives as stipulated in the Criminal Procedure Law refer to husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters. 3. What materials do you need to entrust a lawyer (1)? If the husband and wife hire a lawyer, they only need to bring their marriage certificate and ID card. (2) If the lawyer is hired by a parent, mother, son, daughter or brother or sister who is registered in the same household registration book as the suspect, just bring the household registration book and ID card. (3) Parents, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, and people with different accounts of the criminal suspect need to bring the certificate of close relatives and the ID card issued by the local police station.