Serbia

Criminal Procedure Code

Part II
THE COURSE OF PROCEEDINGS

B. PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS

Chapter XX
INVESTIGATION

Conduct of Public Prosecutor upon the receipt of criminal offense report or
notification by the police authorities – dismissal of the criminal offense report
or issuing an Ruling on instigating the investigation
Article 273
(1) Upon receiving the criminal offense report or the police notification about committed criminal offense (Article 256), the Public Prosecutor shall examine the allegations from the criminal offense report or the notification, and shall interrogate the suspect before deciding on the report or the notification, except in the case when he had personally interrogated the suspect in a preliminary investigation in accordance with the Article 260 of the present Code, or if there is a significant danger in delay, or if he, by reviewing the interrogation report prepared by the police and the tape or other audio\video recording about it (Article 260 paragraph 7 of the present Code), finds that there is no need of interrogating suspect who had been interrogated in a preliminary investigation by the police.
(2) Exceptionally, before deciding on the criminal offense report or on the notification, the Public Prosecutor may interrogate the suspect whom he had already interrogated in the preliminary investigation, if particular circumstances of the case so request, or the repeated interrogation is necessary for gathering exculpatory evidence.

Keywords

Questioning of persons - national proceedings



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