Is it serious to call to assist in the investigation?

Telephone notification to assist in the investigation is usually not serious.

Telephone notification to assist in the investigation is a verbal summons, and the summoned person is only a telephone notification. After the summoned person arrives at the case, he will ask the summoned person to sign the summons card. When a criminal is summoned by the police, he can usually be released within 8 hours. If the case is complicated, it will be released within 24 hours. Those who are informed by telephone to assist in the investigation shall obey the notice to assist in the investigation and refuse to accept the summons without justifiable reasons.

Assisting in investigation is a voluntary act taken by citizens to maintain public order and good customs, social harmony and people's livelihood stability, and to cooperate with the police or other departments to carry out investigations. Assisting in the investigation is voluntary and a noble act, without any compulsion or spontaneity, so there is no need to restrict and standardize its details through laws and regulations.

legal ground

Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 117 The time limit for summoning or compulsory summoning shall not exceed twelve hours; If the case is particularly serious and complicated and detention or arrest measures are needed, the time limit for summoning or compulsory summoning shall not exceed 24 hours.

Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 48 A defense lawyer shall have the right to keep confidential the relevant information and materials of his client that he knows in his practice. However, if the defense lawyer knows that the client or others are preparing or committing criminal acts that endanger national security, public security and seriously endanger the personal safety of others, he shall promptly inform the judicial organs.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law

Article 85 The people's police may inquire at the unit or residence of the infringed person or other witnesses. When necessary, they can also be notified to testify in public security organs. When the people's police question the infringed or other witnesses outside the public security organs, they shall show their work certificates. The provisions of Article 84 of this Law shall also apply to questioning the infringed person or other witnesses. Article 84 The record of inquiry shall be submitted to the person being questioned for verification; Read aloud for those who can't read. If there are omissions or errors in the record, the interviewee can supplement or correct them. After the person questioned confirms that the transcript is correct, he shall sign or seal it, and the people's police who inquire shall also sign the transcript. If the person being questioned requests to provide written materials on the matters being questioned, it shall be allowed; When necessary, the people's police may also ask the person being questioned to write by himself. When inquiring about the violator of public security administration under the age of 65, it shall notify his parents or other guardians to be present.