Professional Ethics of Inquiry Police

Abstract

The most important duty of inquiry polices is to provide the evidence in order to prove whether or not those suspects have commit crimes.The responsibilities on duty of inquiry polices are based on laws and codes of conduct.Any mistakes caused by inquiry polices would result in the disadvantages of suspects as seen, for example, the case of Sherry Ann Duncan. The offenders were not punished, but other innocent people were arrested and died while staying in prison instead. This example represents one of the failure in the investigation process. This article, therefore, aims to examine the ethical problems and solutions toward the evident collection process conducted by inquiry polices. According to Article 76 in the 2017 Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand indicating together with the 2001 Ethic of inquiry police under the Regulations and Royal Thai Police have provided the standard of ethics for inquiry police. In order to respond to these two regulations, this article also provides recommendations for the inquiry politics to pursue their duties based on these aforementioned regulations.