Examination of Historical Development of Judicial Constable in Iranian Criminal Law System

s the officers of exploring crimes, the judicial constables play an important role in establishing public order and social security. Since establishing public order and social security is desirable when the issue does not cause violating citizenship rights and legitimate freedoms, so it is necessary that the legislator determine specific conditions for recruiting constables and their features in terms of institutions and personalities exactly. The aim of this research is to examine the historical trajectory of judicial constable authority in Iranian criminal law system and determine the performance of legislator in direction of identifying exact features of judicial constables. This research is an applied one in terms of goals which is conducted through examining scientific documents of information and data, and it is done by analytical-descriptive method. the findings show that although Iranian legislative system does not pay attention to its duty for determining the conditions of judicial constables, but finally in 2013 act of criminal procedure, it was determined the conditions of judicial constables and on the other hand, the post was conditioned to some certain innate and formal features.