This isn't how it works in the United States at least. The police are allowed to lie to you, your lawyer, the media, anyone they want to, as long as they are not under oath. They may be held civilly liable for lies that cause damages but only after overcoming their qualified immunity. Lieing to the court even when not under oath could lead to a contempt change.

>This isn't how it works in the United States at least. The police are allowed to lie to you, your lawyer, the media, anyone they want to, as long as they are not under oath.

That seems like you're playing semantics.

A contempt charge is a type of criminal charge. My contention is that if a lawyer, during discovery, asks the police a question like "did you analyze the data" and they lie they'd face issues.

So it looks like we're in agreement :)

You are in spirit in agreement, but I don't think he played on words. Just stating (how awful, personal opinion) how it is in the US.

To my knowledge the police in Germany is not allowed to lie to you during interrogations in the sense you put it.

https://dejure.org/gesetze/StPO/136a.html

According to this law, deception is a prohibited interrogation method.

No idea how this is handled in practice and what the loopholes are.

I have a vague memory of a confession in Switzerland being invalidated because of this, but can't find a source at the moment.