Investigative Committee of Russia

Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Investigative Committee
Следственный комитет Российской Федерации
Sledstveny Komitet
Common name Sledkom
Abbreviation SK Rossii

Emblem of the Investigative Committee

Flag of Russian Investigative Committee
Agency overview
Formed January, 2011
Preceding agency Investigative Committee under the Office of the Prosecutor General
Employees 19,156
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency RUS
General nature
Operational structure
Overviewed by

Presidential Administration

of Russia
Headquarters Bauman Street, Moscow
Elected officer responsible Alexander Bastrykin, Director
Agency executive Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
Child agency Military Investigative Committee
Website
http://www.sledcom.ru/
Investigative Committee Headquarters in Bauman Street, Moscow

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (Russian: Следственный комитет Российской Федерации) has since January 2011 been the main federal investigating authority in Russia. Its name (Sledstvennyi komitet) is usually abbreviated to Sledkom. The agency replaced the Russian Prosecutor General’s Investigative Committee and operate as Russia's Anti-corruption agency. It is answerable to the President of Russia and has statutory responsibility for inspecting the police forces, combating police corruption and police misconduct and is responsible for conducting investigations into local authorities and federal governmental bodies.

On January 21, 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree appointing Alexander Bastrykin, then the acting chair of the Prosecutor General’s investigative committee, as Sledkom's chairperson.

In 2012 President Medvedev began to discuss the possibility of creating a Federal Anti-Corruption Bureau under Sledkom, as part of the campaign against corruption and to combat corruption in the Russian police.

Number of employees

the number of agents in the Investigative Committee (except the military investigative agents) is 19,156 employees, and from January 1, 2012 need to be 21,156 employees. the number of the Military Investigators now is 2,034 employees.

According to the 2012 Law on Amendments to some Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in connection with improving the structure of Preliminary Investigation, it will expand to 60,000 staff, largely by taking over most of the investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Drug Control Service.[1]

Management

Chairman of the Investigative Committee

Putin and Bastrykin

On January 21, 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree appointing Alexander Bastrykin, then the acting chair of the Prosecutor General’s investigative committee, as chairperson of the federal investigation agency.

Vice-Chairmen

Structure

The structure of the Central Administration of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation includes:

References

  1. ↑ "Izvestiya, 10 September 2012"

External links

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