ABSTRACT
In the Finnish model, the role of the police is to investigate crime, while the prosecutor is in charge of the indictment and bringing the case to court. This model is compromise between the two extremes, the complete separation of police and prosecutor and having a strong prosecutor leading the police and criminal investigations. The police–prosecutor relationship was a piece in a wider political puzzle, and for this reason it was not considered as purely a matter of legal policy. The role of the prosecutors in the criminal process had already gradually grown towards the end of the nineteenth century. The 1889 criminal law reform had already strengthened the role of the prosecutor by dividing crimes into two categories. The first category consists of the crimes that are publicly prosecuted. The second, smaller category contains crimes that are left for the victim of the crime to prosecute. The victim retained the private right to prosecute alongside the public prosecutors.
