POLICE INTERROGATION: JURIDICAL NATURE REGARDING THE BRAZILIAN DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONAL MODEL

• Autor(a) principal: Remedio, José Antonio
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Cardoso, Fernando Cerqueira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista do Direito Público
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/direitopub/article/view/35636
• topic: Police Inquiry; Police Interrogation; Police Interrogation in the Democratic Model; Democratic Constitutional Model; Legal Nature of Police Interrogation.; Inquérito Policial; Interrogatório Policial; Interrogatório Policial no Modelo Democrático; Modelo Constitucional Democrático; Natureza Jurídica do Interrogatório Policial.

This research explores the legal nature of policequestioning in light of the Brazilian democraticconstitutional model. In this context, the principleof the supremacy of the Constitution prevails inthe national legal system. This means that allother laws must obey constitutional precepts.However, the principle of the supremacy of theConstitution is not always observed in relation toquestioning in police headquarters, which causessignificant damage to the fundamental rights ofthe accused in criminal proceedings. In academia,there is much debate as there is no uniformity ofthought. Moreover, the interrogation sometimeshas a legal evidential nature, sometimes adefensive nature in favor of the investigated, andsometimes a mixed nature, with both evidentialand defensive informative elements. Moreover,the practical implications for the criminallyinvestigated are quite varied, resulting from theadoption of any of the previous mentioned typesin relation to police questioning. Thehypothetical-deductive method is used, based onlegislation, doctrines, and jurisprudence. Thispaper concludes that, based on the Braziliandemocratic constitutional model, especially theconstitutional principles of ample defense andadversarial proceedings, police questioning hasthe legal nature of defense, and not evidential ormixed nature, thus enabling effective protectionof the fundamental rights of the criminallyinvestigated person.