Based on the Act on the Performance of Duties by Police Officers and various statutes, the police take as their basic mission protecting the lives, bodies and property of citizens from crime, together with the purpose of maintaining public safety and order. Therefore, since police activity always touches citizens' lives, it should be seen as always closely linked to human rights. Police power may be invoked only for the purpose of maintaining public safety and order, and it cannot intervene in private life, private residences or civil legal relationships that are not directly related to that purpose. Accordingly, since the exercise of police power that infringes citizens' rights and freedoms is mostly a coercive and restrictive action, such coercive and infringing police action must have a basis in law (Article 37(2) of the Constitution). Therefore, even where there is a danger to public safety and order, police power cannot be invoked if there is no authorizing provision.

For reference, the limits on police power based on jori (reason) are usually organized as the principle of the passive purpose of police, the principle of police publicness (inviolability of private life and private residence, non-interference in civil relations), the principle of police responsibility, the principle of police proportionality, and the principle of police equality. Among these, the principle of proportionality is expressly stated in Article 1(2) of the Act on the Performance of Duties by Police Officers, which provides that authority must be exercised to the minimum extent necessary. Organizing these five principles in a table together with the material's arguments makes debate preparation easier. Check the sources separately for figures in the material such as safety rankings.