"procurator fiscal" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
          "text": "There was word of the procurator fiscal taking note of his doings, and troth, if they had continued long he must have fled the country.",
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          "ref": "2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman",
          "text": "For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.",
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          "ref": "2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32",
          "text": "For other notifications that do not meet the investigative threshold, RAIB may respond by writing a letter to the industry and issuing a press statement, taking no further action, or in the event of a fatality writing a letter to the coroner or the procurator fiscal (in Scotland) containing a summary of evidence.",
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        "A local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland."
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