O papel do inquérito policial no processo penal brasileiro

Abstract

The present work deals with the role of the police investigation in the Brazilian criminal procedure, and aims to understand its importance in criminal prosecution, specifically to understand the reasons that lead to its indispensability for criminal prosecution. Through the presentation and discussion of the theses of dispensability and indispensability, we seek to analyze the concepts and definitions present in the doctrine and their applications to judicial decisions. For that, an applied qualitative research was carried out, through a bibliographical and jurisprudential survey. Arguments were presented regarding the two theses, with definitions of data by the authors used as a reference for the research, so that such arguments were discussed and confronted, with the objective of demonstrating and understanding the importance of the police investigation and its indispensability in criminality. Finally, it was concluded that the inquiry is of paramount importance in the Brazilian criminal procedure, being indispensable for criminal prosecution, due to its elucidative investigative purpose.