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Poland The Prosecutor General
The communist-era Office of the Chief Prosecutor was
abolished following the Round Table Agreement. Thereafter,
the
minister of justice has served as the prosecutor general.
The
mission of the prosecutor general is to safeguard law and
order
and ensure prosecution of crimes. Since 1990 the
prosecutors on
the district and local levels have been given autonomy
from the
police and are subordinated to the minister of justice,
who has
assumed the role of the defunct prosecutor general. In
1992 many
prosecutors remained from the rubber-stamp judicial system
of the
communist era, however. Because they had no understanding
of
democratic judicial practice, these officials seriously
inhibited
the new legal system in dealing with the wave of crime
that
accompanied the transition to a market economy.
Data as of October 1992
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