Police civil liability in Iran

Iran's Law Enforcement Police Department as an organization is responsible of various, different, and hard duties. Performing tasks and regulations in a proper way by the police staff has been insisted by the legislator and society. A main part of legal tasks relating restore order and security, crime prevention, prosecution and arrest of offenders, run the judiciary, civil and criminal enforcement – in its different aspects – and also a main part of law and non-law enforcement services including issuing certificate, passport, military affairs, international police and enforcement matters is on police organization’s responsibilities, and you can hardly find a law which is not involved in police organization. Wide and variety scope of missions is such that it relates police missions to people’s lives before any other organization or institution. Necessity of legality of actions and proceedings forces the police organization and its staff to perform them in legal frameworks. Sometimes it may happen that performing a demanded task lead to the occurrence of adverse events and damage to natural and legal persons and hence, result in the realization of civil or criminal liability of police and the necessity of compensation of damage and losses happened –whether financial or spiritual - by that action. The police organization and its staff also have to take more care in performing actions and notice victims with responsibilities and exemption of police staffs in order to reduce civil liability of police. By a brief look at rules, the general and specific principles and resources of civil liability of police has gained interest and legal cases of police civil liability has been discussing and analyzing by investigating related cases in constitution, penal, civil liability, compensation practices, the use of weapons and civil law.