The Criminal Investigation Department of Bangladesh (CID) has started its work in 1947.After liberation war, CID became a part of Bangladesh Police. The headquarter of CID is situated at Malibagh; Dhaka. Most of its laboratory work is conducted here. This is only legally authorized institute in Bangladesh to provide experts’ opinion about physical evidence. Physical evidences are analyzed in this institute. Many trained expert are working as to physical evidences. CID is divided in two sectors. Such as- Investigation and Forensic sector. An Additional Inspector general of Police (AIG) is the head of Investigation sector and Chief Chemicals’ is the head of forensic sector. Investigation sector maintains the following rank structures: Additional Inspector General of Police (Ad.IGP), Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Special Superintendent of Police (SSP), Additional Superintendent of Police (Add. SP), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Investigation Officer (IO), Sub Inspector (SI) and others stuffs (539)**. Forensic sector maintains the following rank structures: Chief chemicals’, Additional Chief chemicals’, Assistant Chief Chemicals’, Physiologists and others stuffs. ← Investigation sector deals with investigation of hand writing, finger prints, ballistics, forgery and crime scene. ← Forensic sector deals with the investigation of chemical substances and viscera.
The CID is the investigation arm of Bangladesh Police. As mentioned earlier, CID is mainly responsible for investigation schedule offences for successful prosecution. In addition to that, CID also performs investigation for the cases assigned by the Home Ministry and Police Headquarters. In fact, CID detectives work in conjunction with the local police to solve crimes. • Goal and objectives of CID: ← To delivered the collected information about recorded crime to the local police. ← To deal the inquiry or
References: 1. www.Bangladesh police 2. www.Forensicscience.htm 3. Police Reform Programme - UNDP-BGD/04/001 4. The 8th Aaps Annual Conference, 1-4 October 2007, Korea. 5. United Nations Civilian Police Handbook (1995); United Nations Department of Peace-keeping Operations, United Nations. 6. Handbook of Forensic Science; Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory, Northwest, Washington, D. C. 20535, USA. [pic][pic][pic] ----------------------- 10