One of the questions put on tomorrow’s agenda of the government session is related to the allocation of funds to the Special Investigation Service. Gagik Khachatryan will present a draft decision which foresees allocation of 16 million 537 thousand 600 AMD to the Special Investigation Service from the Government’s reserve funds according to the article on economic classification of budget spending, “Salaries and Bonuses of Employees”.
It is specified in the justification of the proposal that due to the workload of SIS investigative activities it is necessary to increase the number of staff members which is aimed at alleviating investigators’ huge and unprecedented workload which, in its turn, will definitely reduce the current tension and, therefore, will also improve the quality of investigations, as well as will exclude the cases of high-qualified employees’ possible resignation due to heavy workload. The analysis and calculations clarified that the Service staff needs to be replenished with 7 vacancies of Senior Investigators for particularly important cases (PIC).
In the justification section of the decision statistical data on the increase of investigators’ workload is presented. In particular, in 2015 the PIC investigators’ workload increased almost 4 times, as compared to that of 2012-2013. In other words, during the first six months of 2015 PIC investigators took on as many criminal cases as they did in 2012-2013, altogether. It’s also worth mentioning that, compared to the number of cases investigated during the first half of 2014; the number of cases investigated during the same period in 2015 has increased by 76.7 percent. During the first half of 2015 materials on 203 criminal cases were prepared, 800 applications were considered and taken action on.
“In the current situation the investigators of the Service are forced to work at least 6 days a week, from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM and even longer. In order to keep up the efficiency of investigations, as well as not to miss the deadlines specified in the legislation, the investigators of the Service come to work even on holidays. The investigators of the Service are not paid for the overtime work, as described above. Thus, the additional 7 vacancies will help to decrease the investigators’ workload and create sufficient conditions to ensure smooth operation of the Service,” says the draft decision.
