Article 132 (Submission of Damage Compensation Monies)
A detective, investigator, prosecutor, judge or court shall cause the person responsible for
compensating damage to deposit the damage compensation monies in a bank concerned and
receive a temporary deposit certificate, then shall draft a report of submission of damage
compensation monies and attach it to the case record.
CHAPTER III. INVESTIGATION
Article 133 (Duties of Investigation)
The duties of investigation are to identify criminals.
Article 134 (Commencement of Investigation)
A detective who has obtained crime data to investigate shall soon make a decision to commence
the investigation that states the basis and shall commence the investigation.
Article 135 (Treatment of Written Decision to Commence the Investigation)
From the time of the decision to commence the investigation, a detective shall send a certified
copy of the written decision to the prosecutor within 24 hours. In cases where a prosecutor has
received a certified copy of the written decision and there is no basis for the investigation, he or
she may cancel the decision to commence the investigation with a decision.
Article 136 (Listening to Statements Required for Investigation)
A detective may request data or statements necessary to identify the criminal from an institution,
enterprise, organization, or citizen. In this case, the person making the statement shall be
informed that making a false statement will mean the imposition of criminal liability.
Article 137 (Method for Investigation)
A detective may do acts of verification, search, seizure, psychological experiments, identification
or confrontation to identify the criminal, and may request an analysis.
Article 138 (Investigation Outside the Jurisdictional Area)
A detective may directly conduct investigations to identify a criminal even outside his or her
jurisdictional area. In this case, the prosecutor of that jurisdictional area may surveil him or her.
Article 139 (Request for Investigation)
In cases where a detective is required to conduct an investigation outside of his or her
jurisdictional area, he or she may make a request to a detective of the area concerned. A