Holidays of Russia - Day of the Investigative Officer of the Russian Federation

On July 25, all employees of investigative units celebrate their professional holiday, such as: employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICR), employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, FSKN and others... The question arises, why July 25? Here we should make an excursion into the past. Because it was on this day - July 25, 1713 that Peter I, by his personal decree, established an investigative office, which became the first state body in the country, which reported directly to the head of state, and had the authority to conduct a preliminary investigation. Until the sixties of the 19th century, the jurisdiction of the structures involved in solving crimes was constantly changing - from the police chief's office to the deanery, and their work, to be honest, was ineffective, and also led to corruption in this area. Alexander II took a different path. In 1860, he removed investigative agencies from the police and transferred them to the courts, which later became the model for the creation of a system of military investigators. With the advent of Soviet power, or rather, after 1917, investigative units arose in almost all law enforcement agencies, and in 1929, offenses were entrusted to the investigative department of the RSFSR Prosecutor's Office, separating military investigators into a special unit - the military prosecutor's office. The Federal Law of January 15, 2011 “On the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation” finally put an end to the formation of an independent non-departmental institution of preliminary investigation, summing up the three-hundred-year thorny path of the search for its formation. Now the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is a state institution operating in the field of criminal proceedings, not part of the structure of any government bodies, controlled by the President. Let's try to figure out what exactly the Investigative Committee does in our time. The list is impressive: conducting preliminary investigations in criminal cases of crimes against life, sexual freedom, tax offenses and crimes related to corruption. Investigators also deal with cases of terrorism, extremism, kidnapping, etc. The list goes on and on. In addition to the above and what remains “behind the scenes”, investigators are investigating cases against those in power and officials. On the Day of Investigative Officers of the Russian Federation, people involved in this difficult and psychologically loaded profession receive gratitude and encouragement from their superiors, awards for solving crimes, congratulations from loved ones, colleagues and friends. And on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the publication of the decree of Peter I, the departmental system replenished its arsenal of awards with a new one - “300 years of the first investigative office of Russia.”