Recent referendums State Attorney's Office of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Državno odvjetništvo Republike Hrvatske or DORH) is an autonomous and independent judicial body empowered and duty-bound to instigate prosecution of perpetrators of criminal and other penal offences, to initiate legal measures to protect the property of the Republic of Croatia and to apply legal remedies to protect the Croatian Constitution and laws.

In addition, Croatian State Prosecutor's Office for the Suppression of Organized Crime and Corruption (USKOK) is a special body of DORH specialized in investigations related to corruption and organized crime.

The competent State Attorney's Office acts in misdemeanor proceedings in line with the powers granted to it under the law.

A state attorney terminates his office when deceased, when he has attained the age of 70 years, and upon the dismissal.

A state attorney can be released from duty if he has exercised his duties in an illegal, untimely and insufficiently expert manner; the state attorney office he represents fails to achieve satisfactory results; he fails to perform the duties in a state attorney office or justice administration in conformity with the regulations or fails to perform them in due time; has failed to file a request for a disciplinary proceeding in the matters determined by law; he commits an action corresponding to the action referred to under Article 84 of The Act on the State Attorney's Office; the grounds for the dismissal referred to under Article 69, Paragraph 1, items 1 to 4 of The Act on the State Attorney's Office exist.