Usually means: Police unit investigating serious crimes.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Criminal Investigation Department)

noun:  the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes detectives belong in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth nations.
noun:  The Directorate of Criminal Investigations, previously referred to as Criminal Investigation Department is a department of the National Police Service mainly responsible for investigation.
noun:  The Criminal Investigation Department in the Irish Free State was an armed, plain-clothed counter-insurgency police unit that operated during the Irish Civil War.
noun:  The Criminal Investigation Department (known as CID) of the Sri Lanka Police Service is responsible for carrying out investigations throughout the island into serious crimes, including murders, rape and organized crime cases of a very serious nature that require special skills and complex detection.
noun:  The (abbreviated as CID) a specialized intelligence and investigation wing of the Bangladesh Police.
noun:  A Crime Investigation Department or Crime Branch is a branch of the state police departments of India responsible for the investigation of crime, based on the Criminal Investigation Departments of British police forces.
noun:  one of the many departments under the Singapore Police Force for premier investigation and staff authority for criminal investigation matters within the Singapore Police Force.
noun:  A criminal investigation department or crime investigation department is a branch of many police forces.


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