Questionnaire Denmark
III.6 Where does the service get its funding from?
The police and the prosecution service have a
combined budget, which is part of the combined budget of the Ministry of Justice.
The prosecution service does not have a separate budget, and subdivisions of
the budget cover the Attorney General’s office and those of the regional
prosecutors. The prosecutorial work of the Chief Constables, the Deputy Chief
Constables, and the Assistant Chief Constables and their police work is
organised in such a way that it is impossible to separate one from the other
when trying to assess the financing of the various activities. However, as the
number of the legal staff of the police forces is fixed by law, and as the
salary of those officials is also fixed by law, it is possible, though in
practice complicated, to distinguish the part of the police budget earmarked
for the prosecution service.
