Deber de los oficiales ante delitos inminentes en Kansas

Explicación Simple

Si un oficial de policía cree que alguien va a cometer un delito, tiene que arrestarlo de inmediato. Luego, debe llevar a esa persona ante un juez y avisar al abogado del condado para que lo procese.

Es como cuando un entrenador ve que un jugador va a cometer una falta en un partido y decide intervenir antes de que suceda, para evitar un problema mayor.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan, un oficial de policía, ve a alguien con un arma que parece que va a robar una tienda. Juan debe arrestar a esa persona y llevarla ante un juez, además de avisar a un abogado para que se encargue del caso.

Penalidades

Si un oficial no cumple con su deber, puede perder su puesto.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

21-1803.Duty of officers when offense about to be committed under K.S.A.21-1801; penalty for failure.When any sheriff, marshal or other police officer has reason to believe or has knowledge of facts sufficient to induce the belief that any person within the municipality over which the jurisdiction of such sheriff, marshal or other police officer extends is about to commit any offense defined in K.S.A.21-1801, he shall forthwith arrest such person, and take him before any judge mentioned in K.S.A.21-1802, as amended, and give notice to the county or district attorney for the county in which such offense is about to be committed, who shall immediately attend before such officer, and, upon the proper affidavit or complaint being filed, prosecute such cause; and the subsequent proceedings in such cause shall be the same as those provided in K.S.A.21-1802, as amended. The failure or neglect of any sheriff, marshal or other police officer to perform any duty imposed upon him by the provisions of this act shall work a forfeiture of his office, and it shall be the duty of the county or district attorney for such county to cause such forfeiture to be adjudged and such officer removed from his office, by a proper civil action brought for that purpose in the district court of such county. History:L. 1901, ch. 274, § 3; R.S. 1923, 21-1803; L. 1974, ch. 446, § 9; July 1.