1. If the family members don't know which detention center they are being held in and know nothing, then take the household registration book to the nearest police station to ask about the situation. Now the national public security system is networked, and they can find out whether they are detained or not and where they are detained.
2. Know where your relatives are being held, and entrust a lawyer to the detention center to meet as soon as possible. On the one hand, you can understand the case, on the other hand, you can look at the recent situation of the parties and take a message to your family.
3. Only lawyers can see the parties in criminal cases, but family members can't see the parties. Family members may entrust lawyers to meet with them;
4. In criminal cases, it takes 37 days to get a guarantor, and a lawyer is entrusted as soon as possible to help the parties get bail pending trial and bail. The sooner you entrust a lawyer, the better for the client;
5. Entrusting a lawyer must entrust a regular criminal lawyer to find a lawyer who specializes in criminal cases. Regular and reliable lawyers are very important;
6. Issue entrustment contracts and invoices. Don't entrust a contract, and lawyers who don't give invoices must not believe it.
After accepting the entrustment, criminal lawyers can provide legal assistance:
1. Learn about the alleged crimes and related cases in detail from the professional perspective of lawyers, provide professional legal opinions and suggestions in time, and strive for the greatest legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects;
2. Meet the criminal suspect in time and provide him with legal help. Meeting with a lawyer is particularly important, which can not only know all the facts of the case at the first time, but also relieve the mental stress of the criminal suspect, provide him with maximum legal help, avoid making statements against him without violating the objective facts, let him know the accused charges and possible punishments in time, and explain his rights in the process of litigation to the criminal suspect;
3. Acting as an agent for criminal suspects to appeal, accuse and obtain bail pending trial, and providing professional legal advice. After the defense lawyers are involved in the case, they can form supervision pressure on the case-handling organs, urge the case-handling organs to handle the case according to law, reasonably apply to the investigation organs for bail pending trial, and help the case-handling personnel to understand the case in more detail through legal procedures such as bail pending trial.
To sum up, being detained in criminal detention shows that there are potential criminal and legal risks. Public security organs usually take detention measures against criminal suspects after they have certain evidence materials. After detention, the investigation activities may be further transformed into arrests and continued investigations.
Legal basis:
Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
When to entrust a defense, the criminal suspect has the right to entrust a defender from the day when he is interrogated for the first time by the investigation organ or takes compulsory measures; During the investigation, only lawyers can be entrusted as defenders. The defendant has the right to entrust a defender at any time.
When interrogating a criminal suspect for the first time or taking compulsory measures against him, the investigation organ shall inform him that he has the right to entrust a defender. The people's procuratorate shall, within three days from the date of receiving the case materials transferred for examination and prosecution, inform the criminal suspect that he has the right to entrust a defender. The people's court shall, within three days from the date of accepting the case, inform the defendant of the right to entrust a defender. If a criminal suspect or defendant requests to entrust a defender while in custody, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall promptly convey it.
In the form of entrusted defense, if the criminal suspect or defendant is in custody, his guardian or near relative may entrust a defender to defend on his behalf.
The obligation of the defender to inform, after accepting the entrustment of the criminal suspect or defendant, the defender shall promptly inform the case-handling organ.