Public procurator
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A public procurator is an officer of a state charged with both the investigation and prosecution of crime. The office is a feature of a civil law inquisitorial rather than common law adversarial system of law and is usually found in current or former communist states. Japan, which has never been a communist state, and has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, also uses a procuratorial system. The office of a procurator is called a procuracy or procuratorate. The terms are from Latin and originate with the procurators of the Roman Empire.
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- Supreme People's Procuratorate of China.
- The Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam.
- Procurator General of the USSR.
- Prosecutor General of Russia.
- Prosecutor General of Ukraine
- Procurator Fiscal (Scotland)
- Inquisitorial system – use in France and limited use in common law jurisdictions such as the United States
