CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates new CB-CID head office in Chennai
CB-CID has a strength of close to 700 personnel including 3 ADGPs, 4 IGs, 4 DIGs, 9 SPs
Chennai: Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday inaugurated the newly constructed Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) office in Egmore.
The four-storeyed building spread over 50,000 sq ft and built at an overall cost of '10.17 crore is located where the old city police commissioner’s office was housed on Pantheon Road.
All the three subdivisions of the CB-CID — prime CB-CID, crime wing and the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) — will be moving into the new premises which will also house the offices of the ADGP, DIG, IG of Railway police, Special Investigation Team (SIT), cyber crime, narcotics and other special departments of the CB-CID apart from the offices of the primary wings.
The CB-CID has a strength of close to 700 personnel including three ADGPs, four IGs, four DIGs, and nine SPs and 20 DSPs.
The NIBCID was operating out of the former north zone IG’s office near Alandur municipality, while the EOW was given a place in the TN Housing Board office in Tirumangalam. The main CB-CID office is now functioning at SIDCO complex in the Guindy industrial estate and it will take few more weeks for them to move in.