Department of Criminal Intelligence

Department of Criminal Intelligence
Department of Criminal Intelligence
	Emblem of India
Abbreviation	DCI
Motto	Service Security Integrity
Agency overview
Formed	1904
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency	India
Operations jurisdiction	India
Governing body	Government of India
General nature	Federal law enforcement;
Operational structure
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
Minister responsible	Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs;
Parent agency	Ministry of Home Affairs

The Department of Criminal Intelligence (DCI) was established in April 1904 under Sir Harold Stuart on recommendations of Sir Andrew Fraser, following the report of the 1903 Police Commission instituted by the then Viceroy of India Lord Curzon.^[1]^[2] After Indian independence in 1947, Central Criminal Intelligence Department was renamed as the Department of Criminal Intelligence (DCI) is India's domestic intelligence, counter-terrorism, and criminal Investigation agency, Under the Ministry of Home Affairs Government of India. The agency is tasked with national security and criminal matters.

History[]

Central Criminal Intelligence Department[]

was established in April 1904 under Sir Harold Stuart on recommendations of Sir Andrew Fraser, following the report of the 1903 Police Commission instituted by the then Viceroy of India Lord Curzon After Indian independence in 1947, Central Criminal Intelligence Department was renamed as the Department of Criminal Intelligence (DCI)

Notes[]

^ Chatterjee, D. K. (2005). Central Police Organisations. Allied Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7764-903-1 – via Google Books.
^ Reshi, Shabir Ahmad; Dwivedi, Seema (April 2015). "Growth & Development of Intelligence Apparatus during British Colonial Era in India" (PDF). International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention. 4 (4): 16. Retrieved 30 December 2019.

References[]

Popplewell, Richard J. (1995). Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire 1904–1924. Routledge. p. 42. ISBN 0-7146-4580-X.
Riddick, John F. (2006). The History of British India. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 87. ISBN 0-313-32280-5.

[Chatterjee_2005-1] Chatterjee, D. K. (2005). Central Police Organisations. Allied Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7764-903-1 – via Google Books.

[2] Reshi, Shabir Ahmad; Dwivedi, Seema (April 2015). "Growth & Development of Intelligence Apparatus during British Colonial Era in India" (PDF). International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention. 4 (4): 16. Retrieved 30 December 2019.

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