Public procurator

A public procurator (Chinese: 公诉人;^[1] 检察官^[2]) 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. Countries such as Japan, China, Russia, Indonesia and Lithuania adopt the procuratorial system.

City People's Procuratorate office in Longhai City, Fujian, China (中华人民共和国福建省龙海市人民检察院)

The office of a procurator is called a procuracy or procuratorate.^[3] The terms are from Latin and originate with the procurators of the Roman Empire.