Criminal investigation department

C. E. Howard Vincent, founder of the Metropolitan Police CID

In the United Kingdom and many former British colonies, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the generic name for the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes detectives belong. A force's CID is distinct from its Special Branch (though officers of both are entitled to the rank prefix "Detective").

The Metropolitan Police created a detective branch in 1842 with eight plainclothes detectives, thirteen years after it was established in 1829.[1] Detective units were set up in the City of London Police and in other major cities and towns from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.[1] [2]

On 8 April 1878, the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch was reformed into the CID by C. E. Howard Vincent.[3][1] Originally, Vincent's CID was under the direct command of the Home Secretary, but since 1888 has reported to the commissioner.

The terminology developed in the UK in the 19th and early 20th centuries was adopted by British colonial police forces all over the world, and later often retained by the police forces of those countries after independence. "CID" is also often used as a translation of comparable organisations in other countries in English-language media.

By country

Bangladesh

France

The Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire (DCPJ) is the national authority of the criminal division of the French National Police. Its function is to lead and co-ordinate the action of the law enforcement forces against organised crime.

Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Kriminalpolizei is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the police forces of Germany, Austria and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland.

India

Many state police forces in India possess a CID (sometimes known as the investigation branch) as a specialised wing.[4] Personnel attached to this wing work in plain clothes, or mufti. A CID may contain sub-branches, for instance the CID in Uttar Pradesh includes the state crime investigation bureau, finger print bureau and scientific section.[5]

Like their counterparts in the law and order police, the crime branch has its own ranks up to the level of additional director general of police or special commissioner of police.[6] The crime branch has senior officers like superintendents, inspectors and sub-inspectors. Officers and men attached to this wing generally add the prefix detective before their regular police rank.

The crime branch's tasks are to investigate criminal cases, which span across multiple districts or states. The CID may also take up complicated cases like communal riot cases, circulation of counterfeit currency, or very complicated murder cases.[6] A crime branch investigation is ordered either by a judicial court, by the director general of police, or the government.

Crime branch officers can be transferred to the law and order police, and vice versa. The crime branch is different from the crime detachment or crime squad. Crime Detachment and Crime Squads are a group of regular law and order policemen (who generally wear the uniform specifically detailed by the police inspector to work in plain clothes to keep a tab on local criminal elements, prostitutes, petty thieves and other habitual offenders.

Indonesia

Indonesian Police investigators from the criminal investigation unit

The criminal investigation units within the Indonesian National Police are called sat-reskrim (satuan reserse kriminal) meaning "criminal investigation unit", it is under the bareskrim (badan reserse kriminal) "criminal investigation agency" which is under the command of the national police headquarters. Every regional police force in Indonesia has this unit; they are concerned with conducting criminal investigations and identification activities.

Ireland

The Royal Irish Constabulary maintained a CID along British lines before independence. After independence and partition, the government of the Irish Free State set up a CID for the purposes of counter-insurgency during the 1922-1923 Irish Civil War. It was separate from the unarmed Civic Guard, which later became the Garda Síochána. The Garda today operates local detective squads and several specialised, national detective units, including the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Kenya

Malaysia

The CID of the Royal Malaysian Police is involved with the investigation, arrest and prosecution of crimes that affect people (e.g. murder, robbery with firearms, rape and injury) and property crime (e.g. theft and house-breaking). Modelled on the British police, this department enforces laws regarding gambling, "sin" and the Triad in Malaysia.

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Police Force's CID is a sub-branch unit within the criminal intelligence bureau under the crime wing of the B department (crime and security).

Pakistan

The CID in Pakistan is a special unit of the provincial and metropolitan police departments, responsible for carrying out investigations into crimes, including terrorism, murders, organised crime and sectarianism. The special branch of the CID in the Asia Division (CIDA) was a division of this department, but is currently not operational. It had only 12 members, the names of which are not available because of security issues.

Singapore

The Singapore Police Force's CID is the agency for premier investigation and staff authority for criminal investigation matters within the Singapore Police Force.[7]

Sri Lanka

The CID of the Sri Lanka Police Service is responsible for carrying out investigations into crimes including murder and organised crime. It was established in 1870.[8]

United Kingdom

Detectives are usually either assigned to a CID unit within a local policing command, or to a central specialised unit dealing with a specific type of crime, such as fraud or sexual offences.[9] Most local police stations have more uniformed officers than CID officers; a smaller station might have five DCs with a Detective Sergeant (DS) in command, while a larger station would have more CID officers under a detective of higher rank. A particular case would be assigned to a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) whose rank would depend on the seriousness of the crime and their force's policy.

Detectives in the United Kingdom do not have a separate rank system, and are not automatically senior to uniformed officers who hold the same rank. Before 1999, female detectives' ranks were prefixed with "Woman", as in other branches of the police. The head of the CID in most police forces is a Detective Chief Superintendent. Ranks are abbreviated as follows:

To join a CID in the United Kingdom, a police officer must have served in uniform for at least two years.[9] While training as a detective they are referred to as a Trainee Detective Constable (TDC)[10] and after completing the national Initial Crime Investigators' Development Programme, typically taking around two years, they become full Detective Constables (DCs).

Although there is generally no pay increment on obtaining detective status in most forces, detectives are expected to spend more time at work than most uniformed officers and this can attract additional overtime payments. Previously paid allowances such as the detective duty allowance (a small payment intended to allow officers to purchase refreshments and other similar petty cash purposes) and the plain clothes allowance (an allowance used to purchase suitable clothing) have all been withdrawn over the past few years.

Military investigations

The Royal Military Police, Royal Navy Police and RAF Police all maintain a Special Investigation Branch (SIB), fulfilling much the same role as a civilian CID. The Ministry of Defence Police is a civilian force that provides policing services on military bases, and as such has a CID much like a territorial police force. The RMP SIB has regular sections, and one Army Reserve section. To join the reserve section, a reservist must either have a regular army SIB or civilian CID background.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shpayer-Makov, Haia (2012). The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199577408.
  2. ↑ "Our history". Nottinghamshire Police. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "History of the Metropolitan Police – CID – Criminal Investigations Department –". Metropolitan Police. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012.
  4. ↑ HC issues notice to crime branch-CID Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. The Times of India, 28 August 2003. "crime branch-CID of Tamil Nadu Police"
  5. ↑ https://uppolice.gov.in/article/en/about-us-cid. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 1 2 Crime Branch CID Archived 4 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Kerala Police, Official website.
  7. ↑ http://www.police.gov.sg/about/org/cid.html#cid
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
  9. 1 2 "www.police-information.co.uk". Archived from the original on 12 October 2014.
  10. ↑ Waldren, Michael J. (2007). Armed Police, The Police Use of Firearms since 1945. England: Sutton. p. 224. ISBN 0-7509-4637-7.
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