Optimizing Police Action in Handling Criminalization by Prioritizing the Ultimum Remedium Principle

Abstract

The purpose of this research is toknowing and analyzing the implementation of the ultimum remedium principle by the Police in handling criminalization. In this writing, the author uses a normative juridical method with research specifications in the form of descriptive analysis. The application of the principle of ultimum remidium is a middle way that benefits all parties, both as victims, as perpetrators, and for the benefit of the wider community. However, in its current development, the content of material containing criminal sanctions related to imprisonment sanctions is almost always included in every law. Therefore, there is a shift in legal policy regarding the application of criminal law from being a last resort/method (Ultimum Remedium) to a first resort/method (Primum Remedium). Through the introduction of the Police institution, it is not absurd to implement it with consideration of legal reasoning from the Police apparatus in viewing a criminalization of whether or not a case's weight needs to be continued in the criminal procedure process.