The lower chamber of the Russian parliament will consider a bill on a new unified Investigative Committee proposed by President Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin said on Monday.
On Thursday, Medvedev proposed setting up a Unified Investigative Committee on the basis of the Investigative Committee of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office.
The bill, part of an overall shake-up of the country's criminal justice system, envisages the goals and the principles of the committee's activity.
The new committee will comprise of a chairman, his 13 deputies, including one first deputy, one deputy-secretary of state, and one deputy-head of the Main Military Investigative Committee.
The total number of staff will include 21,156 people in the headquarters and regional branches.
RIA Novosti
