Will my cousin's imprisonment affect him to take the civil service exam or apply for the police?

It didn't work. First of all, it needs to be clear that since China's criminal law implements the principle of legality, from a legal point of view, children do not need to bear legal responsibility for crimes committed by their parents or relatives. However, if parents or immediate family members have criminal records, it may have an impact on the political review of their own, immediate family members and spouses in joining the army, civil service examinations, military schools, police schools, bank recruitment, and state-owned enterprise recruitment. If the political examination is unqualified, it will not be hired. The political examination of civil servants is to examine themselves and their immediate family members, and cousins belong to collateral relatives, so the political examination of civil servants is not on cousins, so the imprisonment of cousins has no effect on the civil service examination.

Chapter IV Recruitment of Civil Servants in People's Republic of China (PRC) Article 24 The following persons shall not be employed as civil servants:

(1) Having received criminal punishment for committing a crime;

(2) Being expelled from public office;

(three) there are other circumstances in which the law stipulates that it is not allowed to be employed as a civil servant.

In addition to the provisions of the civil service recruitment inspection, one of the following circumstances shall not apply for the people's police:

(1) Having received criminal punishment;

(two) the criminal suspect has not been identified or is being investigated and controlled by the political and legal organs;

(3) Being expelled from public office;

(four) lineal blood relatives or collateral blood relatives who have a great influence on themselves have been sentenced to death or are serving sentences;

(five) lineal blood relatives and collateral blood relatives who have a great influence on themselves are engaged in activities to subvert China's political power at home and abroad;

(six) other circumstances that are not suitable for the people's police.