When there are sufficient grounds to suspect that the suspect has committed an offense punishable by the death penalty, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment whose maximum term is three years or more, and in addition, because of urgency an arrest warrant from a judge cannot be obtained, public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials may arrest the suspect after notifying the suspect of the reasons therefor. In this case, the procedures for obtaining an arrest warrant from a judge must be taken immediately. Where an arrest warrant is not issued, the suspect must be released immediately.
検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員は、死刑又は無期若しくは長期三年以上の拘禁刑に当たる罪を犯したことを疑うに足りる十分な理由がある場合で、急速を要し、裁判官の逮捕状を求めることができないときは、その理由を告げて被疑者を逮捕することができる。この場合には、直ちに裁判官の逮捕状を求める手続をしなければならない。逮捕状が発せられないときは、直ちに被疑者を釈放しなければならない。
The provisions of Article 200 apply mutatis mutandis to the arrest warrant set forth in the preceding paragraph.
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judicial police officialmachine translation
「司法警察職員」
Judicial police officers (司法警察員) and judicial police constables (司法巡査) together.
Defined inArticle 39, paragraph (3)
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.
public prosecutor
検察官
The official who brings a prosecution (公訴) for a crime before a court (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 247), and who may decide not to prosecute where, in view of the offender's character, age and circumstances, the gravity and circumstances of the offence and what happened after it, prosecution is not needed (Article 248). In criminal cases a public prosecutor asks the court to apply the law correctly and oversees the carrying out of its judgments; and, as the representative of the public interest, a public prosecutor also does the work other laws and regulations assign to a public prosecutor, which is not limited to criminal cases (Public Prosecutors Office Act, Article 4). A public prosecutor may investigate any crime (Article 6, paragraph (1)). Public prosecutors work through the public prosecutors offices (検察庁): the Supreme, High, District and Local Public Prosecutors Offices (Article 1).
Written by AI using Code of Criminal Procedure, Arts. 247, 248 and Public Prosecutors Office Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6 as a reference.