英文摘要 |
"The legal interest protected by the offence of assaulting police is the police’s official conduct, the legality of which should be assessed objectively based on the circumstances at the time of the act. If the police constable does not breach necessary and vital procedures, his conduct should be taken as legal. The violence involved in the offence of assaulting police must be physical violence against his person. Where a special constable is lawfully enforcing the law with a police officer, violence against the special constable amounts to the offence of assaulting police as well. An offender’s conduct may amount to the offence of assaulting police as well as the offence of obstructing official duties, and in such a situation, the offender should be convicted of the former as it is a more specific offence compared to the latter. Where the offender mistook a police constable for an ordinary state functionary and violently attacked him, he should be convicted of the offence of obstructing official duties. If the offender mistakenly believed that the police constable was not acting lawfully and such a mistake was avoidable, he should still be liable for the offence of assaulting police. Where an offender assaulted a police constable and caused actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm or death, he has committed the offence of assaulting police as well as the offence of intentional injury or intentional killing and should be liable for the more serious one of the two offences. Where the offender committed another crime before assaulting police constable, he should be liable for both crimes. From the perspective of the theory of substantive criminalization, minor assaults against police constable should not be a crime. In terms of retrospectivity, the offence of obstructing official duties should be applied to offenders who assaulted police constable before this new offence of assaulting police constable was incorporated into law, but the sentencing should be adjusted in a restrictive manner." |