Investigative Committee of Russia
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF; 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 SKR (Russian: СКР). The agency replaced the Russian prosecutor general's Investigative Committee and operates 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.
| Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Следственный комитет Российской Федерации | |
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| Abbreviation | SK Rossii, SKR |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | January 2011 |
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| Employees | 19,156 |
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| Federal agency | RUS |
| Operations jurisdiction | RUS |
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| Overviewed by | Presidential Administration of Russia |
| Headquarters | Bauman Street, Moscow |
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| http://www.sledcom.ru/ | |
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.