Public prosecutors, public prosecutor's assistant officers or judicial police officials may ask any person other than a suspect to appear in their office, interrogate said person or request said person to conduct an expert examination, translate or interpret if it is necessary for the investigation of a crime.
検察官、検察事務官又は司法警察職員は、犯罪の捜査をするについて必要があるときは、被疑者以外の者の出頭を求め、これを取り調べ、又はこれに鑑定、通訳若しくは翻訳を嘱託することができる。
The proviso of Article 198, paragraph (1) and the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (5) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case set forth in the preceding paragraph.
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judicial police officialmachine translation
「司法警察職員」
Judicial police officers (司法警察員) and judicial police constables (司法巡査) together.
Defined inArticle 39, paragraph (3)
public prosecutor
検察官
The official who brings a prosecution (公訴) for a crime before a court (Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 247), and who may decide not to prosecute where, in view of the offender's character, age and circumstances, the gravity and circumstances of the offence and what happened after it, prosecution is not needed (Article 248). In criminal cases a public prosecutor asks the court to apply the law correctly and oversees the carrying out of its judgments; and, as the representative of the public interest, a public prosecutor also does the work other laws and regulations assign to a public prosecutor, which is not limited to criminal cases (Public Prosecutors Office Act, Article 4). A public prosecutor may investigate any crime (Article 6, paragraph (1)). Public prosecutors work through the public prosecutors offices (検察庁): the Supreme, High, District and Local Public Prosecutors Offices (Article 1).
Written by AI using Code of Criminal Procedure, Arts. 247, 248 and Public Prosecutors Office Act, Arts. 1, 4, 6 as a reference.