The operative prosecution work is conducted at the country’s 39 public prosecution offices. Of these, 32 are local offices operating in geographical areas that roughly correspond to a county. In the metropolitan areas there is more than one local public prosecution office in each area.
Everyday crime constitutes a large part of the prosecutor’s work. Included in this category are shoplifting, assault and causing damage. At most local prosecution offices there is a specialist prosecutor who co-ordinates the work carried out by the office to combat everyday crime. There are also specialist prosecutors for other types of offence, such as environmental crime, violent crimes of a serious nature and drug-related crime.
The work at a local public prosecution office is conducted in close co-operation with the police, who perform the operative investigations.
The administrative personnel are a support to the prosecutors in dealing with cases and other matters.
At three locations in the country there are international prosecution offices with specialist competence for combating organised, cross-border crime and for the international co-operation between prosecutors. In addition there are four national prosecution units: one for combating corruption, one for security-related cases, one for national environmental crime and one for dealing with suspected offences committed by the police.