County Crown Prosecutor (Canada)

In the Canadian Republic, a federal parliamentary republic in North America, the office of County Crown Prosecutor is the second-most senior public legal official at the county level, whose office forms an integral part of the respective county's Department of Justice, which oversees the administration of justice within the county and is led by a Secretary of Justice, the county's most senior legal officer and official counsel to the county's government.

The Office of the County Crown Prosecutor is responsible for either directly prosecuting in county or municipal court on behalf of the county's justice department, or supervising County Crown Attorneys (deputies of the County Crown Prosecutor), who handle the majority of prosecutions in the county, with the County Crown Prosecutor him/herself handling only county-level prosecutions or very serious local-level prosecutions relevant to one of the respective county's municipalities. On rare occasions (usually the most serious cases tried at the county level), the county's Secretary of Justice and County Crown Attorney act as co-counsel for the prosecution.

Unitary authorities (such as the federal capital of Ottawa or the Toronto Metropolis) have their own justice department overseen by a Secretary of Justice, who like county Secretaries of Justice oversees the respective Chief Crown Prosecutor.