Ranking with the Supreme People's Court, the SPP resembles public prosecution offices found in other jurisdictions. The highest legal organ empowered to supervise the regional and special procuratorates, it assists them in their work, also probing bribery and negligence in such agencies as the courts and the police. The SPP may lodge protests in the Supreme People's Court on errors deemed arising from lower courts or local and special prosecutors. A state (not Party) organ, it reports to the National People's Congress, not the State Council. An SPP inspector is probing 'courts' and 'police' in the cartoon.