Officer

The certificate of senior state security lieutenant M. Kazakov, M. A. , who was in the service in the Special Department of the NKVD (military counterintelligence ) of the Moscow military district as the UNKVD operative officer of the Serpukhov sector for protecting the rear of the Moscow zone .

Operations Commissioner - an operational officer, an official of the body authorized to carry out operational investigative activities .

The main difference from other officials of the body of inquiry is the special powers that allow for operational-search activities. Clerical work conducted in the operational apparatus of the body carrying out operational investigative activities and accompanying the suppression and disclosure of crimes by unofficial methods, the search for persons hiding from the bodies of inquiry, investigation and the court, intelligence and operational work, has the heading “secret” and “top secret” and not subject to disclosure and publication. In connection with a large number of handwritten documents drawn up by an operational officer, abbreviations are widely used: “О / у”, “Art. o / y ”,“ O / y by ATS ”,“ Art. o / a by ATS ”and similar - to designate a position to be replaced. An operations officer is allowed to wear civilian clothes everyday.

The name of the post of the operative was introduced in the bodies of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD for the first time in 1918. In 1970-1980, in the Soviet militia, the name of the post “operative officer” was replaced by “inspector”, but since the beginning of the 80s, the historical name was returned to the post of operative officer of the internal affairs bodies.

The procedural status of the operative is similar to the procedural status of another official of the inquiry body authorized to conduct a preliminary investigation in the form of an inquiry. In this regard, the operative has the right to verify reports of crimes in accordance with Article. 144, 145 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and the adoption of relevant decisions on them.

The positions of security officers are also provided for in the penal system of the Russian Federation (FSIN of Russia). The operative agent is an employee of the operational department of the relevant institution ( pre-trial detention center , correctional colony, educational colony ), or of the administrative apparatus (main department) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the federal subject (department of the search, organization of the special operations unit, personal security, etc.) and is engaged in intelligence-operational work, prevention, prevention and disclosure of crimes in prisons.

Depending on the type of operational unit and the tasks performed by it, there is a gradation of the position of an operational employee - a security officer, a senior security officer, a security officer for especially important cases, a senior security officer for especially important cases. For these positions, various limiting special ranks are established, however, their legal status is the same, the chief (head) of the operational unit has the full powers of the operational employee. In the internal affairs bodies and the penal system of the Russian Federation, the position of an officer in charge provides for the assignment of a special rank to the police captain (internal service captain) inclusive, the senior officer in charge - to the police major (internal service major) inclusive, the officer in charge of especially important matters, the senior officer of the special important matters - up to and including the lieutenant colonel of the police (lieutenant colonel of the internal service).

In the operational detective units of the territorial bodies of internal affairs and internal affairs bodies in transport, the position of the junior commanding staff is provided - the junior detective officer. The junior detectives are involved in the identification and suppression of pickpocketing and other crimes of a general criminal orientation, by the method of personal investigation. In the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation, the post of junior security officer provides for the assignment of a special rank to the senior police ensign, inclusive.