The remit of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service's Area Fiscals Group is:
- To meet regularly with Management Board in order to discuss operational policy and business issues in COPFS.
- To provide Area Fiscals and Crown Office Business Heads with opportunities to consider and advise on wider Departmental management matters, where possible, before Management Board takes the decision.
- To ensure that members accept a shared and collegiate understanding of their responsibility to lead the Department towards achievement of its business goals and strategic priorities.
- To maintain ownership of and to keep the risk register under review.
(NB: Prior to September 2006, the Group was known as the Legal and Policy Forum)
The minutes of the meetings listed opposite are currently available.