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Criminal Investigation Department

British  

noun

  1. the full name for CID

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"How can a file in the Criminal Investigation Department move up and down, or remain stuck for seven or eight years in a cupboard?" he asked during a speech marking anti-corruption day.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

Meenu faces the charge of leaving the country from an unauthorised port, according to legal documents from the Criminal Investigation Department of Sri Lanka’s police seen by Reuters.

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2022

The ring in Aceh was connected to six prisoners who are currently serving sentences in the province, said Agus Andrianto, head of the Criminal Investigation Department.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2021

But Ms. Sen later went on to become the deputy inspector general in the mountain range around Darjeeling and is now back in Kolkata with the Criminal Investigation Department.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2014

The head of the Criminal Investigation Department was not the sort of man to accept meekly whatsoever coarse commands Robert Fenley chose to fling at him.

From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Tracy, Louis