THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE POLICE OFFICER AND THE MAGISTRATE: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE  Cover Image

RELAŢIA POLIŢIST – MAGISTRAT: O PERSPECTIVĂ PSIHOSOCIOLOGICĂ
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE POLICE OFFICER AND THE MAGISTRATE: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Florin Dumitrescu
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Academia de Poliţie »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« Bucureşti
Keywords: district attorney; police officer; cooperation; criminal justice.

Summary/Abstract: In more or less formal debates, the relation between the police and justice often appears as one of the so-called delicate, especially when dealing with individual opinions from both sides. Often, the result is that that there are differences between the two institutions or mutual reproaches and that things do not work as they should. On one hand, magistrates can reimburse criminal cases, invoking incomplete or incorrect procedures, on the other, the police investigating these cases permanently feel the stress, anxiety and discomfort from this perspective, disavowing the excess of rigor and the thoroughness and even suspecting a lack of insight, maybe even the lack of honesty of the judges. Those from inside the system, and not only, know exactly that if the policeman is entitled and obliged to interpellate, investigate and detain offenders, he can not make the decision on the fate of those arrested. The filter occurring in police activity and the control factor is the magistrate. For criminal justice to work, however, it also needs police cooperation which supplies practically the whole machinery of justice.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 271-275
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian