There are generally four mechanisms for holding law enforcement accountable: community-based, political, civil, and criminal. Community-based accountability. Political accountability. Civil lawsuits. Criminal Prosecutions.
Federal, state, county, and municipal law enforcement agenies.
It says officers should “prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.”7 Although this principle was shaped within the context of history at the time it was written, it remains relevant.
The sources of criminal procedure in the Philippines include Spanish law, U.S. laws, Philippine laws and court rules. There are three main systems - inquisitorial, accusatorial, and mixed.
Criminal justice and security The judicial system in the Philippines is affected by corruption, inefficiency and lack of accountability from the country's elite. Moreover, in recent years, there has been a series of murders and threats against judges and lawyers.
This course deals with the study of the five pillars of the Criminal Justice System in the Philippines-the Law Enforcement, Prosecution, Court, Corrections, and Community. It also covers their respective functional relationship as well as the individual roles in the administration of justice and solution of crimes.