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Investigative Committee Chairman Artur Poghosyan believes the committee needs a separate operational unit to improve the effectiveness of criminal proceedings.
Poghosyan made the remarks during preliminary discussions of the draft 2027 state budget at a joint meeting of the National Assembly’s standing committees on state and legal affairs and on financial, credit and budgetary affairs, responding to a question from Civil Contract faction MP Andranik Kocharyan.
Kocharyan asked whether budget allocations were sufficient to keep pace with the growing volume of investigative work and what structural changes could improve the committee’s effectiveness. In that context, he also raised the committee’s lack of its own operational unit.
Poghosyan said structural changes had already been implemented and new units established through internal reorganisation. He also stressed the importance of expanding operational capabilities.
“In certain criminal proceedings, there is a real need, in my view, for the Investigative Committee to have a separate operational unit, with all that this entails. I believe this would further improve the effectiveness of criminal proceedings. I am presenting this not simply from the perspective of the interests of the institution, but from the perspective of the public interest and the effectiveness of criminal proceedings,” Poghosyan said.
He stressed that the committee was currently working actively with the operational units of other bodies.
Citing his experience in the National Security Service’s Investigative Department, Poghosyan said being part of the same organisation had facilitated faster information sharing. According to him, investigators were kept informed from the initial stage of obtaining operational intelligence and could plan their work accordingly.