The crime of assaulting a police officer refers to the crime of assaulting a police officer, which generally exists in common law countries and does not exist as an independent crime in civil law countries. Attacking the police is often regarded as "the crime of obstructing official duties". In China, China and Hongkong have inherited the British legal tradition, so they have been punished for assaulting a police officer.
This crime infringes on complex objects, in which the normal management activities of the state are its main objects, and the personal rights of state organs and Red Cross staff are its random objects.
The crime of nuisance of official duties violates the normal management activities of the country. If any country wants to exist and develop in a stable and orderly way, it must enjoy a series of management functions and carry out a series of management activities, which is usually realized by the staff of state organs and other organizations performing their duties according to law. Therefore, criminal acts that hinder state organs and Red Cross staff from performing their official duties according to law will inevitably interfere with and undermine the normal management activities of the country. This is the focus of the social harmfulness of this crime, and it is also the key to distinguish this crime from criminal acts that simply infringe on the personal and property of public servants.
Legal basis: According to Article 277 of the Criminal Law, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or a fine. Whoever causes serious injury or death shall be convicted and sentenced for intentional injury or intentional homicide, and may be sentenced to death.