Completing the criminal procedure law on coercive measures of police escort and accompanied escort

Abstract

Police escort and accompanied escort are two coercive measures in criminal proceedings with the aim of ensuring that the activities of prosecution, investigation, indictment, trial are carried out in accordance with the procedures and provisions of the law. Articles 126 and 127 of the 2015 Criminal Procedure Code, amended and supplemented in 2021, stipulate that police escort and accompanied escort are one of four coercive measures that competent agencies and people conducting proceedings can apply within their authority. In this article, the author analyzes some theoretical issues about measures of police escort and accompanied escort and makes recommendations, based on assessments of limitations and inadequacies in law, to improve the Criminal Procedure Law on these two measures.