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The office most likely originates in the Roman-Dutch and French manorial or seignorial administrator (Dutch: procurator-fiscaal, French: procureur fiscal), who, as the fiscal in the title suggests, was originally an officer of the sheriff (the local law enforcement officer and judge) with financial (fiscal) responsibilities: the procurator fiscal collected debts, fines, and taxes.
Procurator (with procuracy or procuratorate referring to the office itself) may refer to: Procurator, one engaged in procuration , the action of taking care of, hence management, stewardship, agency
They are also responsible for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service which together constitute the Criminal Prosecution Service in Scotland. Together with the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor General for Scotland is one of the senior legal advisors to the government in Scotland. [ 2 ]
The name "fiscal procurator" or "fiscal promoter" was previously used in canon law [4] for the official known since the publication of the 1917 Code of Canon Law as the promoter of justice, whose function is to safeguard the public welfare in cases brought before ecclesiastical tribunals.
From 43 offices throughout Scotland, 1,300 Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service staff use FOS to streamline the complex procedures required to handle in excess of 300,000 reports of crime and sudden deaths per year. Anite created the FOS system at their Glasgow office with development starting in the year 2000.
A fiscal procurator (procurator Augusti) was the chief financial officer of a province during the Principate (30 BC – AD 284). A fiscal procurator worked alongside the legatus Augusti pro praetore (imperial governor) of his province but was not subordinate to him, reporting directly to the emperor. The governor headed the civil and judicial ...
The procurator fiscal is also responsible for the investigation of all sudden, suspicious and unexplained deaths in Scotland. This includes the decision to call a fatal accident inquiry . The procurator fiscal is also responsible for the independent investigation of criminal police complaints made in that sherrifdom (administrative complaints ...
The prime responsibility for the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 fell to Jimmy McDougall, the Procurator Fiscal in the nearby town of Dumfries, and to the Dumfries & Galloway police force – the force with the fewest officers in Britain. The police effort was augmented by officers from all over Scotland as well as the north ...