Public Prosecutor's Office (Lithuania)
The Public Prosecutor's Office ( Lithuanian : prokuratūra ) is the authority in Lithuania that is responsible for criminal prosecution and enforcement and, as such, is part of the administration of justice .
Preliminary investigation
The current form of the investigative proceedings of the public prosecutor's offices is laid down in the Lithuanian Criminal Procedure Code , which came into force in May 2003 and replaced the previous Soviet Criminal Procedure Code. It is a one-step process and is the responsibility of the respective public prosecutor's office under Article 118 of the Lithuanian Constitution . The public prosecutors are not independent in their work, but are subject to the instructions of the respective superordinate body. Public prosecutors usually use the police to investigate.
organization
The public prosecutor's office in Lithuania is structured in three organizational levels: At the national level there is the general public prosecutor's office of the Lithuanian Republic (lit. Lietuvos Respublikos generalinė prokuratūra). These include District Public Prosecutor's Offices (lit. Apygardos Prokuratūra), which in turn are assigned to Public Prosecutor's Offices (lit. Apylinkes Prokuratūra).
National level
District level
There are 5 district public prosecutor's offices at the district level:
- Vilnius District Prosecutor's Office
- Kaunas District Attorney's Office
- Klaipėda District Prosecutor's Office
- Šiauliai District Prosecutor's Office
- Panevėžys District Prosecutor's Office
Kaunas District Attorney's Office
The Kaunas District Prosecutor's Office is subordinate to the following Public Prosecutor's Offices: Kaunas City and Alytus District, Jonava District, Jurbarkas District, Kaišiadorys District, Kaunas District, Lazdijai District, Marijampolė District, Prienai District, and Vilakiai District.
The Chief Public Prosecutor is Kęstutis Betingis , the Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor are Viktoras Biriukovas, Vladimir Kakoškin and Nerijus Marcinkevičius.
Vilnius District Prosecutor's Office
The Kaunas District Public Prosecutor's Office is subordinate to the following public prosecutor's offices: Vilnius City, Druskininkai City, Ignalina District, Molėtai District, Šalčininkai District, Širvintos District, Švenčionys, Trakai, Ukmergė, Varasėna District, Visaraginas District, and Visaraginas City.
The chief public prosecutor is Ramutis Jancevičius , whose deputies are Irmantas Mikelionis, Brunonas Maculevičius and Anatolijus Koržovas.
Organizational structure
- First division for the organization of the investigation of very serious crimes
- Second Division for the Organization of the Investigation of Very Serious Crimes
- Appellation Department
- Civil Affairs Department
- chancellery
- Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Department
- Administrative Control and Analysis Department
- Finance and Accounting Department
- Economic department
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juozas Galginaitis, Antje Himmelreich, Ruta Vrubliauskaite (Ed.): Introduction to Lithuanian Law, 2010, ISBN 3830517769 , page 276 ff., Online
- ↑ Organization chart