Police Role in Providing Legal Protection against Children as Victims of Sexual Abuse

Abstract

The main objective of the paper is to analyze Police role and their steps in providing legal protection against children as victims of sexual abuse. This study is using the normative research which is a study of legal principles concerning the substance of legislation. This study is using the secondary data as the main data and the primary data as support. The result found that the police role in dealing with a criminal act of sexual violence in children in general already showed his role with a maximum of law enforcement and guidance of society. In addition, the police also in dealing with the case of criminal act in particular in the case of criminal acts of sexual violence not always running in accordance with the expected, this is because by the time constraints and means in dealing with each case that there. While the steps taken is collecting evidence of a strong, giving protection to the victim and running cooperation with the local community. With these steps are expected to maximize the police work in dealing with the case of sexual abuse in children

Keywords: Police, Indonesia, Child Abuse, Law protection