How long is the sentence for minor assault on a police officer?

Whoever violently attacks the people's police who perform their duties according to law shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance; Whoever causes accidents by using guns, controlled knives or driving a motor vehicle, which seriously endangers personal safety, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.

Specifically, the severity of the case mainly depends on the degree of injury, and also depends on whether the injured party has a series of circumstances such as understanding, confession, and lighter punishment. , to determine the final result.

Assaulting a police officer is a criminal case. Once detained on suspicion of a criminal case, no one can contact the parties, including family members. Only family members can entrust a lawyer to see the client, and they can also understand the specific circumstances of the case, provide favorable legal help to the client, and also send a message to the family members, including striving for bail pending trial in the early stage, and striving for the maximum legitimate rights and interests of the client in the later stage, such as commutation, probation and non-prosecution.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.

Article 277 The crime of assaulting a police officer is generally punished with fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years.

Article 277 Whoever obstructs a functionary of a state organ from performing his duties according to law by violence or threat shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or a fine.