Can lawyers communicate with police officers during the investigation stage?

Legal analysis: Yes. Lawyer's defense is divided into three stages: investigation stage, examination and prosecution stage and trial stage. In the investigation stage, it is mainly to provide legal assistance to criminal suspects. It can communicate with case handlers on relevant legal issues in the process of case investigation, raise objections to the illegal investigation measures of case handlers, ask investigators to collect evidence materials beneficial to criminal suspects, and form written materials for the defense opinions of cases to provide to the case handling organs.

Legal basis: Article 32 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). In addition to exercising the right of defense, criminal suspects and defendants may also entrust one or two people as defenders. The following persons may be entrusted as defenders:

(1) lawyers;

(2) A person recommended by a people's organization or the unit to which the criminal suspect or defendant belongs;

(3) Guardians, relatives and friends of criminal suspects and defendants.

A person who has been sentenced to punishment according to law or deprived of or restricted personal freedom shall not act as a defender.