Under the current Korean Criminal Procedure Act, a public prosecutor is the authoritative body in criminal investigations and entitled to supervise a judicial police official. Any judicial police officer or assistant shall investigate crimes under ins...
Under the current Korean Criminal Procedure Act, a public prosecutor is the authoritative body in criminal investigations and entitled to supervise a judicial police official. Any judicial police officer or assistant shall investigate crimes under instructions of a public prosecutor. A public prosecutor belongs to Supreme Prosecutors`` Office. On the other hand a judicial police official belongs to National Police Agency or other administrative agency. Most of criminal investigations are made by police officials of National Police Agency. So, there are constant disputes between Supreme Prosecutors`` Office and National Police Agency over empowering police with an independent investigative authority in Korea since 1945. This review firstly analyzes how Article 196 of Korean Criminal Procedure Act had been made in 1954 since 1945. Then this review compares Korean Criminal Procedure Act of 1954 with Chinese Criminal Procedure Act of 1935 and looks into the details and the most striking features of the relationship between prosecutors and judicial police officials. Lastly, this review go over the main points of Korean Criminal Procedure Act revised in 2011 and discusses on reasonable relationship between prosecutors and judicial police officials based on most striking features of the relationship between prosecutors and judicial police officials in Chinese Criminal Procedure Act of 1935.