| Agencyname: | Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation |
| Nativename: | Следственный комитет Российской Федерации |
| Abbreviation: | SK Rossii, SKR |
| Logocaption: | Emblem of the Investigative Committee |
| Flag: | Flag of the Investigative Committee of Russia.svg |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of Russian Investigative Committee |
| Formed: | January 2011 |
| Preceding1: | Investigative Committee under the Office of the Prosecutor General |
| Employees: | 19,156 |
| Country: | Russia |
| Countryabbr: | RUS |
| Federal: | Yes |
| Police: | Yes |
| Oversightbody: | Presidential Administration of Russia |
| Headquarters: | Bauman Street, Moscow |
| Minister1name: | Alexander Bastrykin |
| Minister1pfo: | Chairman |
| Chief1name: | Vladimir Putin |
| Chief1position: | President of Russia |
| Child1agency: | Military Investigative Committee |
| Unittype: | Service |
| Website: | http://www.sledcom.ru/ |
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF; Russian: link=no|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 . 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.
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 is now 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]
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.
The structure of the Central Administration of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation includes:
The investigative departments of subjects of Russian Federation are subordinated to the Investigative Committee, and the investigative divisions of cities and raions are subordinated to the investigative departments of subjects of Russian Federation. There are specialized investigative departments (investigative departments on transport, investigative department of Baikonur Cosmodrome) which are subordinated to the Investigative Committee and have own subordinated investigative divisions. Finally, there is the Chief Military Investigative Department which is subordinated to the Investigative Committee and have own subordinated military investigative departments (military investigative department of Western Military District, military investigative department of Eastern Military District, military investigative department of Southern Military District, military investigative department of Central Military District, military investigative department of Northern Fleet, military investigative department of Baltic Fleet, military investigative department of Black Sea Fleet, military investigative department of Pacific Fleet, military investigative department of Strategic Missile Forces and Moscow city military investigative department) which in turn have own subordinated military investigative divisions (garrison military investigative divisions).
Investigators of the Investigative Committee in a broad sense are directly investigators, senior investigators, heads of investigative divisions and their deputies, heads of investigative departments and their deputies, chairman and vice-chairmen of the Investigative Committee. All of them are federal government officials, have special ranks (Russian: специальные звания) and wear special uniform with shoulder marks. Military investigators (in a broad sense) are military personnel, have military ranks of commissioned officers and wear military uniform with shoulder marks but they are not subordinated to any military authority (excepting higher military investigator).