Investigative Committee of Russia

Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Следственный комитет Российской Федерации
Emblem of the Investigative Committee
Emblem of the Investigative Committee
Flag of Russian Investigative Committee
Flag of Russian Investigative Committee
AbbreviationSK Rossii, SKR
Agency overview
FormedJanuary 2011
Preceding agency
  • Investigative Committee under the Office of the Prosecutor General
Employees19,156
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agencyRUS
Operations jurisdictionRUS
General nature
Operational structure
Overseen byPresidential Administration of Russia
HeadquartersBauman Street, Moscow
Elected officer responsible
Agency executive
Child agency
  • Military Investigative Committee
Website
http://www.sledcom.ru/
Investigative Committee Headquarters in Bauman Street, Moscow

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.

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.