Editing Coroner (section)

=== Brazil ===
In Brazil, almost like in the case of [[Medical examiner|medical examiners]], such activity has always been privative to [[Physician|physicians]], but necessarily [[Police officer|policeful]], reason why its common denomination, ''Médicos-Legistas'' (Physician-Legists), is due to such bionicity.

In the [[Federal Police of Brazil|Department of Federal Police]], according to the National Association of Federal Forensic Experts (''Associação Nacional dos Peritos Criminais Federais – APCF''), "the Federal Forensic Expert is a police officer with technical and scientific knowledge in the service of justice and a professional specialized in finding or providing so-called material evidence through the scientific analysis of traces produced and left in the commission of crimes",<ref>{{Cite web |last=felipematos7 |date=2019-04-08 |title=O Perito Criminal Federal |url=https://apcf.org.br/pericia-criminal/o-perito-criminal-federal/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=APCF |language=pt-BR}}</ref> what, in case of the Physician-Legists (inserted in the aforementioned career), applies in relation to highly complex federal crimes involving corpses that need to be examined by the Forensic Medicine and Dentistry Sector linked to the National Institute of Criminalistics.

Throughout the [[Federative units of Brazil|federative units]], the [[Civil Police (Brazil)|Civil Polices]] (in [[Federal District (Brazil)|Federal District]] and other 8 [[States of Brazil|States]]) or Scientific Polices (in all other 18 States) disposes of their own Legal-Medical Institutes (mainly responsible for confirming the authorship, dynamics and materiality of offenses involving living beings or their respective corpses) and, with the exception of [[Paraná (state)|Paraná]], the Physician-Legists constitute a police career of their own.