Welcome to the official website of CID West Bengal. The website has been designed to provide all the necessary information about the CID West Bengal and to cater the requirements of people at large.
The new age policing challenges need both professional response and humane orientation. At CID West Bengal, we always strive to provide impartiality and integrity to fight against crime and to provide quality investigation to the best of our abilities and in the interest of justice.
CID West Bengal is committed to counter modern age crimes like Cyber-crime using innovative methods and techniques. We have a State-of-the-art Cyber-Forensics and Digital Evidence Examiners’ Laboratory (CFDEEL) to provide forensic opinion in Cyber Crime cases which inter-alia helps a lot in quick identification of crime / criminal in different Cyber Crime cases across the State. We also have an ultra-modern Cyber Forensics Training Laboratory (CFTL) to provide training on Cyber Crime/Cyber-Forensics domain to the police personnel of different districts of West Bengal State as part of capacity building in the cyber domain. Apart from that we have a Cyber Crime Police Station at the CID Head Quarter. A Cyber Security and Cyber Safety cell is also there to cope up with the new cyber threats/challenges in the cyber world, encountered day-to-day in CID and different units of West Bengal Police.
CID West Bengal is the State Nodal Agency for prevention of different crime domains which includes Human Trafficking & Crime Against Women & Children, Cyber Crime cases, Missing Persons etc. It has a Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) to handle bomb calls across the State through its 16 bomb disposal units located in different districts of West Bengal. The oldest Finger Print Bureau of our Country functions under this premier organization. It has a Questioned Document Examination Bureau (QDEB) to examine forged/fabricated documents in different cases received from all the police stations of West Bengal including Kolkata Police jurisdictions, Civil Courts including Hon’ble High Court, Calcutta and the neighbouring States as well.
We are constantly striving to improve our services to serve the people of West Bengal in a better way and to look forward for your support in our journey towards excellence.
It's my pleasure to welcome you to the official website of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) West Bengal. It is an honour to serve as the Chief of CID WB which is one of the oldest police departments in India having established in the year 1906 after the partition of Bengal. We, at CID West Bengal are committed to our motto of Fight Crime and Win and we have an illustrious history. Time and again we have proved that CID West Bengal is one of the most competent and efficient police departments in India. CID West Bengal has many specialized units and investigating teams at its head quarters in Kolkata. CID West Bengal has also Cyber Police Station functioning from its head quarters. CID West Bengal is ably supported by 24 detective department field units stationed at every district head quarters/important cities throughout the State of West Bengal. CID West Bengal has the pride of having the oldest finger print bureau in the world. This finger print bureau at CID West Bengal has completed 125 years of glorious service to our nation in 2022. In this ever evolving era of technological advancement, crimes associated with cyber space and network using the technology by unanimous criminals become very challenging for any police force. At CID West Bengal we are fully equipped to face up this challenge with many specialized units under our fold. We operate the citizen centric service of toll free cyber crime help line number 1930 for the State of West Bengal. In the event of any cyber crime involving deduction of money from the accounts of victims, this helpline aims to provide immediate protection to block the movement of money/bank account through money trail and activate intervention of respective law enforcement agency. I would urge everyone to share this number to friends and families so that it could be of some help to someone in the hours of need. I take this opportunity to thank you for visiting our website and I assure you of our sincere efforts to serve you better. We also look forward to your whole hearted cooperation in fighting crime together and winning. We would be happy to welcome your suggestions and feedback, if any.
With regards,
(Dr. R. Rajasekaran, IPS)
Additional Director General of Police
