UPAYA POLISI DALAM MENANGANI TINDAK PIDANA BERUPA PELANGGARAN PEMILIHAN UMUM LEGISLATIF

State of Indonesia is a country based on law that its sovereignty rests with the people and carried out in accordance with the constitution of 1945. The general election is a means to realize the people’s sovereignty in the country. However, the implementation of the legislative general election spawned many complaints on its implementation; the processes and mechanisms that it often leads to violations and crimes of partly society (including political parties) then born the implementation demands of overflowing and fair general election. The efforts of the police in dealing with crime in the form of electoral malpractices are indispensable in creating a high-grade legislative general election. The problem formulation of this research was how the efforts of the police in dealing with crime in the form of legislative electoral malpractices and any constraints experienced by police in handling violation of legislative general election. This research was a normative law that focuses on positive legal norms and the methods of drawing conclusions was deductively by drawing inference from common things to the special things. Legislative general election was general election to choose members of parliament, local councils and regional parliaments. Police was all particular things related to the functioning and police agencies in accordance with the legislation. The efforts of the police in dealing with criminal acts such as the breach of legislative general election was the police cooperated with the prosecutor and general election law society in analyzing, filtering and determine whether a criminal act was an act of criminal offenses or administrative violations of legislative general election. In addition, police received violations report of legislative general election, conducted an investigation, searched, and made files breach inspection of legislative general election. The constraints faced by the police in dealing with violations of legislative general election was the lack of evidence and the time setting in dealing with violations of general election was too short and difficult for the police