Union Home Minister Amit Shah lays the foundation stone of the Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI) at Devanahalli, Karnataka

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Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of the Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI) at Devanahalli, Karnataka on 31 December 2022. 

This will be the 6th CDTI of the Bureau of Police Research & Development under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in the country.

The Devanahalli center of CDTI will serve the forensic needs of the neighbouring States of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territory of Daman-Diu.

Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI)

There are five functioning Central Detective Training Institutes (CDTI) in the country under the Bureau of Police Research & Development. The first CDTI was set up in Calcutta in 1958. Others are at Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur and Ghaziabad.  The objective of the CDIT is to provide training to the police personnel up to Deputy SSP rank.

The main objective of the in-service training is to improve the standard of crime investigation in this country by familiarizing Police Investigation Officers with the various developments in Forensic Science.  They are trained to match the skill and resources of the modern criminal with the aids that the progress of science has placed at their disposal.  They are taught to adopt scientific methods and new techniques and processes and enlist the aid of various branches of science. 

Director General of Bureau of Police Research & Development: Balaji Srivastatva