Submit a statement to the police can any citizen who suffered from wrongful acts. However, it sometimes happens that under different circumstances, it is required to perform the opposite action – to take a statement.

Is there such a thing as "take away" statement?


In criminal proceedings there is no such term as "give" or "return" statement. After contacting the victim to the police statement must be registered in the Book of records of incidents. According to the law the decision on the application shall be made within three days, but in some cases the period may be extended up to 10 and sometimes up to 30 days. At the expiration of that period, or excite criminal case, or refuse its excitation. There is a third option – the application is submitted to the court, if we are talking about criminal cases of private prosecution.
The victim has no right to withdraw your application for whatever reason it was, and for some reason decided not to bring the culprit to justice.

How to quit a case if to take a statement from the police is impossible


Termination of criminal proceedings is possible if held reconciliation of the victim with the accused and the victim received compensation for the done moral and material harm. In this case, the applicant shall submit a petition outlining the new circumstances of the case and request to stop the prosecution. Most likely he will meet, if there is a crime of medium gravity, and the defendant has not previously been brought to criminal liability and fully indemnified losses.
The investigator and the court must dismiss the case at the request of the victim, if it relates to criminal cases of private prosecution.

There is another way to stop the investigation, but it is fraught with the applicant's negative consequences. In this case, the victim re-turns to the police with a petition in which information of the first statements are called false. Such recognition threatens criminal case for perjury.
If you committed a serious crime, to stop criminal case has been initiated at the request of the applicant impossible.
Crimes that relate to the business of public prosecutions, investigated mandatory, regardless of the victim wrote the statement or not.
For such cases is not provided the reconciliation of the parties, so the court and the investigating authorities have full right to deny the victim's request to stop the investigation.