Investigative Committee of Russia
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Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Investigative Committee Следственный комитет Российской Федерации Sledstveny Komitet |
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| Common name | Sledkom |
| Abbreviation | SK Rossii |
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Flag of Russian Investigative Committee
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | January, 2011 |
| Preceding agency | Investigative Committee under the Office of the Prosecutor General |
| Employees | 19,156 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Federal agency | RUS |
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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 |
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| http://www.sledcom.ru/ | |
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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.
The agency periodically initiate proceedings against non-Russians; such as personnel of the Ukrainian army during the War in Donbass.
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 —Preceding undated comment added an unspecified datestamp.now is 2,034 employees.
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