Among some 1 200 employees within the Swedish Prosecution Authority, just over 850 are prosecutors while the remainder work with various support functions.
The operative prosecution activities are conducted at the country’s 39 local public prosecution offices. Of these, 32 are public prosecution offices, with a geographical sphere of operation that is approximately equivalent to a county. In the largest cities there are several local public prosecution offices.
The authority also has international public prosecution offices with specialist competence in order to combat organised cross-border crime and to permit international co-operation between prosecutors.
In addition, there are three national prosecution offices – one for combating corruption, one for dealing with suspected offences committed by the police and one for security-related cases.
The Prosecution Authority’s three prosecution development centres are tasked with conducting methodological and legal development within different criminal areas. Legal follow-up and inspection are also conducted here. An example of this is that fact that all appeals made against prosecution decisions are handled by the development centres. The centres are responsible for maintaining general expertise within their respective areas of responsibility.
At the Office of the Prosecutor-General, there is a criminal offences department for cases heard in the Supreme Court, a legal department for legal direction and control as well as central international issues, a public prosecutor department with responsibility for co-ordination of the operative activities, an administrative department and a communication department.