宋代各地的提刑官,是从秦代的监察各郡的监察御史、汉武帝时监察各郡的州刺史衍化而来的监察官,其全称为提点刑狱公事。《宋史·职官七》述其职责云:“掌察所部之刑狱而平其曲直,所至审问囚徒,详复案牍,凡禁系淹延而不决,盗窃逋逃而不获,皆劾以闻,及举剌官吏之事。”这就是说, Prosecution officers throughout the Song Dynasty, from the monitoring of the county in the Qin Dynasty to monitor the censor, when the Han emperor monitor prefectures provincial governor evolved from the Ombudsman, its full name for the proposed point of imprisonment. “Song history of seven officials,” said its responsibility to cloud: “the palm of the Prisoners of the Department of Justice flat and straight, until the trial of prisoners, detailed complex 牍, where banned Department of flooding and underappreciated, stolen Escape and not, All know what they are and what they say to the officials. ”That is to say,