摘要：With the enactment of Decree with Rank, Value and Force of Law of the Police Service of Investigation, the Scientific and Criminal Investigations, and National Medicine Service and Forensic Science (LOSPI) and the latest reform of the Organic Code of Penal Procedure (COPP), both of them published in June 2012, this question arises: The penal investigation should be understood as part of the police service or as a phase of the penal process? This paper offers a critical approach of this matter.
