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Yes. If for no other reason then because the prosecutor has to show up in court and present the police's case for why they want to continue to detain the suspect(s) beyond N hours (with N being 6 in Sweden to 24 in Denmark). I gather that Swedish prosecutors also function as the formal head of investigations, but I'm unclear as to the details.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Aug 26th, 2010 at 06:55:26 AM EST
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I'm not sure, but I think N is 72 hours in Finland - depending on the seriousness of the potential charge measured by the maximum length of potential imprisonment.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Aug 26th, 2010 at 01:18:20 PM EST
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