LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of December 18, 1990 No. 416-XII

About police

The law of the Republic of Moldova on police determines the place, role and the principles of activities of police in system of bodies of the central and local public authority, establishes the main objectives of police, obligation and right, responsibility and procedure for supervision of its activities.

SECTION I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Police of the Republic of Moldova

The police of the Republic of Moldova represents the armed law enforcement agency of the public power designed to protect on the basis of strict observance of the laws life, health, the rights and freedoms of citizens, interests of society and state from criminal and other illegal encroachments and is component of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Article 2. Main objectives of police

The main objectives of police are:

1) protection of life, health, honor, advantage, rights, freedoms, interests and property of citizens against criminal and other illegal encroachments;

2) prevention and control of offenses and other offenses;

3) detection and disclosure of crimes, search of persons who made them;

4) maintenance of public order and ensuring public safety;

5) rendering on conditions and according to the procedure, established by this law, the help to citizens, bodies of public management, and also to the companies, organizations and the organizations in protection of their rights and realization of the obligations assigned to them by the law;

6) implementation of measures of the state protection concerning persons promoting criminal procedure according to the current legislation.

It is forbidden to attract police to accomplishment of the tasks which are not assigned to it by the law. Nobody has the right to interfere with activities of police for accomplishment of the obligations by it.

Article 3. Principles of activities of police

The police builds the activities on the principles of legality, humanity and social justice, cooperation with citizens and labor collectives, ensuring publicity and observance of professional secrecy.

Information about persons who participated in identification, prevention, suppression, investigation and disclosure of crimes, in judicial review of criminal cases and the organization of measures of the state protection of these persons, and also the data which disclosure can complicate disclosure of crimes is not subject to disclosure of the data, the being state secret, trade secret of the organizations and persons, or promote their making, other official information of limited access.

Article 4. Activities of police and right of citizens

The police in the activities proceeds from respect of the identity of citizens and is guarantor of protection of their advantage, the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests.

The police protects citizens irrespective of their social, property and other position, racial and national identity, gender and age, education and language, the relation to religion, political and other convictions.

The police provides the state protection of the victims, witnesses and other persons promoting criminal procedure.

The police interferes in the rights and freedoms of citizens only if without it the obligations assigned to it cannot be executed.

Any restriction of citizens in their rights and freedoms is admissible only on the bases and according to the procedure, provided by the law.

Citizens have the right to receive from police officers of explanation concerning restriction of their rights and freedoms.

The police provides the right to legal protection and other rights of detainees and persons taken into custody, notifies on the place of their finding of relatives, administration on place of employment or studies and in case of need takes measures to immediate rendering medical care to them, and also elimination of danger of someone's life, health or property which resulted from detention or detention of specified persons. The police is forbidden to disclose the data relating to private life of the citizen, discrediting his honor and advantage or able to injure him to legitimate interests if execution of service duties does not require other.

The data on legality violations compromising the citizen, which are made public directly by police agencies in case of the subsequent rehabilitation of person by court, the prosecutor or police agency, shall be confuted by police agency in the same form in what they were made public, no later than monthly term from the date of entry into force of the judgment, prosecutor's office or police agency about rehabilitation.

Article 5. Legislative regulation of activities of police

Activities of police are regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, this law, other legal acts of the Republic of Moldova, the orders of the Government, decisions of bodies of local public authority, and also the regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs which are not contradicting this law.

In the activities the police is guided by also international, intergovernmental, interdepartmental treaties, one of the parties of which is the Republic of Moldova.

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