Investigative Committee of Russia

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Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Следственный комитет Российской Федерации
Emblem of the Investigative Committee
Flag of Russian Investigative Committee
Abbreviation	SK Rossii, SKR
Agency overview
Formed	January 2011
Preceding agency	Investigative Committee under the Office of the Prosecutor General
Employees	19,156
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency	RUS
Operations jurisdiction	RUS
General nature	Federal law enforcement Civilian police
Operational structure
Overseen 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/

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.