The Role of Police Forensic Laboratory Results as A Legal Power of Evidence In Judges' Decisions on Criminal Acts of Narcotics Abuse

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine, identify and analyze the efforts to apply the role of forensic laboratories as legal force for judges' decisions against narcotics abuse. In this paper, the author uses a normative juridical method. In the discussion that the role of the forensic laboratory is important in uncovering crime cases through the process of examining evidence, because the evidence system according to forensic science is the existence of triangular evidence at the crime scene, there is a chain between the victim, the evidence and the perpetrator. Therefore, not all crimes can be known and revealed through the statements of witnesses and suspects or defendants, but evidence can also provide clues or information on a crime that has occurred, because the results of the examination of evidence from the forensic laboratory there are three pieces of evidence that the laboratory can be fulfilled from five valid evidence based on Act No. 8 of 1981 concerning Criminal Procedure Code Article 184 paragraph (1) namely expert statements, letters, and instructions. Forensic Laboratory is a place that is used to prove from a document or circumstances that are used as evidence in a case. From the provisions of Article 187 letter b of the Criminal Procedure Code, it is stated that a letter made according to the provisions of the legislation or a letter made by an official regarding matters referred to in the management that is his responsibility and is intended to prove something or a situation.