State of Indonesia is a country based on law that its sovereignty rests with
the people and carried out in accordance with the constitution of 1945. The
general election is a means to realize the people’s sovereignty in the country.
However, the implementation of the legislative general election spawned many
complaints on its implementation; the processes and mechanisms that it often
leads to violations and crimes of partly society (including political parties) then
born the implementation demands of overflowing and fair general election. The
efforts of the police in dealing with crime in the form of electoral malpractices are
indispensable in creating a high-grade legislative general election. The problem
formulation of this research was how the efforts of the police in dealing with
crime in the form of legislative electoral malpractices and any constraints
experienced by police in handling violation of legislative general election. This
research was a normative law that focuses on positive legal norms and the
methods of drawing conclusions was deductively by drawing inference from
common things to the special things. Legislative general election was general
election to choose members of parliament, local councils and regional
parliaments. Police was all particular things related to the functioning and police
agencies in accordance with the legislation. The efforts of the police in dealing
with criminal acts such as the breach of legislative general election was the police
cooperated with the prosecutor and general election law society in analyzing,
filtering and determine whether a criminal act was an act of criminal offenses or
administrative violations of legislative general election. In addition, police
received violations report of legislative general election, conducted an
investigation, searched, and made files breach inspection of legislative general
election. The constraints faced by the police in dealing with violations of
legislative general election was the lack of evidence and the time setting in
dealing with violations of general election was too short and difficult for the
police.