Law Enforcement’s Institutional Machinery and the Criminal Process
Law Enforcement’s Institutional Machinery and the Criminal Process
This chapter describes Russia’s four law enforcement agencies: the police (Ministerstvo vnutrennykh del, MVD), the Procuracy (Prokuratura), the Federal Security Service (Federal’naia sluzhba bezopasnosti, FSB), and the Investigative Committee. Each agency is responsible for different aspects of investigating and prosecuting criminal activities as outlined by the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC). All of them are organized hierarchically into three territorial levels. The local (raion) agents answer to their regional (sub’’ekt) superiors who answer to the federal-level agency heads. Law enforcement agents do not answer to anyone outside their agencies, except for the courts and the Procuracy under its powers of general oversight.
Keywords: MVD, Procuracy, Federal Security Service, Investigative Committee, raion, sub’’ekt, federal-level agency, law enforcement agencies
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