 In the new millennium information superhighway is undergoing rapid growth. The Internet and other telecommunications technologies are promoting advances in virtually every aspect of society and every corner of the globe: fostering commerce, improving education and health care, promoting participatory democracy in the everywhere, and facilitating communications among family and friends, whether across the street or around the world. Unfortunately, many of the attributes of this technology - low cost, ease of use, and anonymous nature, among others - make it an attractive medium for fraudulent scams, child sexual exploitation, and increasingly, a new concern known as "cyberstalking." Cyber crime is an evil having its origin in the growing dependence on computers in modern life. In a day and age when everything from microwave ovens and refrigerators to nuclear power plants is being run on computers, cyber crime has assumed rather sinister implications.
Recognizing theses aspects and the implications of cyber threats, the CID is developing a Cyber Crime Unit under the Special Operations Group to manage and direct this developing program. The CID is increasing its capability to identify and neutralize enterprises and individuals who illegally access computer systems, spread malicious code, or support terrorist or state-sponsored computer operations. The Computer Crime Analysis Lab will be equipped with the latest equipment and expertise to deal with all types of computer crimes, computer frauds and computer abuse. The lab will have the capability to handle cases pertaining to hacking, spread of virus, pornography, manipulation of accounts, alteration of data, software piracy, creation of false Web sites, printing of counterfeit currency, forged visas, theft of intellectual property, email spamming, denial of access, password theft, crimes with cell phones and palmtops, cyber terrorism and steganography, the transmission of secret codes concealed in pictures. Read More>> |
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 Ever since the enactment of Act V of 1861, whereby the police system of British India got streamlined, there were proposals at regular intervals to form a specialised detective wing. However it was not till the Police Commission of 1902-03, which finally recommended the formation of a Criminal Investigation Department for each of the provinces that the concept was seriously examined. It was recommended that a Criminal Investigation Department, (CID) should be constituted in each province under a Deputy Inspector General of Police for the purpose of collating and distributing information regarding organised crimes. It would also be in charge of Railway Police and the Finger Print Bureau, which was earlier under the Secretariat Police officer. The CID would also undertake the investigation of specialised crimes that require technical expertise. Finally on 21 March 1905 the Government of India accepted the proposal of the Commission and issued instructions to start the department in every province by 1907. In Bengal the CID came into existence on 1 April 1906 under Mr. C.W.C. Plowden. |
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Jibananda Sarkar 
Balai Dey 
Pakai Dey 
Nepu Giri 
