ECONOMIC OFFENCES WING

Economic Offence Wing is responsible for detection of economic offences, commercial crimes and cases relating to non-banking financial companies.

The wing headed by an officer of the rank of Additional Director General of Police has the following units:

ECONOMIC OFFENCES WING – II (FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS) :-
The Government established the Economic Offences Wing-II (Financial Institutions) in Police department to deal with the cases relating to non-banking financial companies and unincorporated financial institutions, which have collected money from the public as deposits and thereafter defaulted to repay the same on maturity.

i. COMMERCIAL CRIME INVESTIGATION WING (CCIW):-
In order to investigate offences relating to defalcation of funds this wing was formed in 1971. This unit is headed by an officer of the rank of SP with 7 CCIW Sub-divisions. At present units of CCIW are functioning in all districts. Offences relating to co-operative societies involving misappropriation of funds exceeding Rs.1 lakh are investigated by CCIW.

ii. IDOL WING :-
Apart from coordinate and monitoring the investigation of important idol theft cases all over the state, this wing also investigates cases of thefts of idol of antique value exceeding Rs.5 lakhs referred to it by the Director General of Police.