Can citizens provide evidence to the police in private?

Evidence provided by citizens to the police can be kept confidential. The police interrogation record is confidential, and the police must keep the witness's testimony confidential. Witnesses, expert witnesses and victims who think that they or their close relatives are threatened by their personal safety because of testifying in court may request protection from the people's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs. In the process of investigation, neither the parties to the case nor the defense lawyers have the right to retrieve or consult the case files. Interrogation transcripts and interrogation transcripts of general criminal cases can reflect the situation of the case and the progress of the work, which should belong to police secrets, and the police handling the case should keep them confidential. If the case itself involves state secrets, the interrogation record and interrogation record may also belong to state secrets because they contain confidential contents, and they need to abide by the relevant state confidentiality regulations.

Violation of the relevant provisions on guarding police secrets and state secrets shall be given disciplinary sanctions as appropriate; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

The legal consequences of the parties concealing the facts are:

Concealing the facts generally does not constitute a crime, but it will be detained or fined. If the crime constitutes a cover-up or concealment, the starting point of sentencing can be determined within the corresponding range according to the following different situations:

1. If the circumstances of the crime are general, the starting point of sentencing can be determined within the range of fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance;

2. If the circumstances are serious, the starting point of sentencing can be determined within the range of fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.

To sum up, it is illegal for the police to complain to the discipline inspection department of the public security organ at a higher level if the witness testimony is made public.

Legal basis:

Article 54 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)

People's courts, people's procuratorates and public security organs have the right to collect and obtain evidence from relevant units and individuals. The relevant units and individuals shall truthfully provide evidence.

Evidence materials such as physical evidence, documentary evidence, audio-visual materials and electronic data collected by administrative organs in the process of administrative law enforcement and case investigation can be used as evidence in criminal proceedings.

Evidence involving state secrets, commercial secrets and personal privacy shall be kept confidential.

Whoever forges, conceals or destroys evidence, and whoever the evidence belongs to, will be investigated by law.