The Criminal Police organizes and carries out work to prevent, suppress, detect and solve crimes, implements state policy in the field of combating crime, within the limits of its competence.
Functions:
- implementation of operational search activity;
- organization and conduct, in accordance with the procedure established by law, of investigative measures and operations to apprehend persons who have committed crimes;
- organization and implementation of the search for persons who committed crimes, hiding from the investigation;
- monitoring of search and special activities;
- monitoring the activities of subordinate bodies and units of internal affairs;
- crime detection organization;
- creation and maintenance of special accounts;
- organization and implementation of operational monitoring of the conduct of persons registered with internal affairs bodies;
- development of measures to improve the prevention of offences and crime;
- implementation of state programmes in the field of combating crime;
- participation in the suppression of mass disturbances.