Economic Offence Wing

About Us

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Joint Commissioner of Police, EOW is overall in-charge and supervising officer of the Economic Offences Wing, which investigates complicated white collar crimes; general cheating, frauds in banking and medical fields, job racketeering, shares and bogus stamp cases. 

Economic Offences Wing is responsible for organizing new strategies and various training programs to enhance the efficiency of Police Officers and employees. 

For smooth functioning of Economic Offences Wing is divided into following units. 

• Banking-I - Banking offences by Individual Persons.

• Banking-II - Banking offences by Companies. 

• Housing-I - Housing offences by Individual Persons. 

• Housing-II - Housing offences against Developers/ Contractors/ Govt. Agencies. 

• General Cheating-I - Personal / Individual Cheating. 

• General Cheating-II - Corporate Frauds - Public Sector/ Govt. Institution. 

• General Cheating-III - General Cheating in Business Transactions

• Job Racketeering Unit-IV - Job Racketeering, Education & Medical Frauds

• Shares Unit-V - Shares, Security Market & Commodity Market. 

• FICN Unit -VI - Govt. Stamps & Counterfeit Currencies. 

• MPID Unit- VII - Investment/Deposits Frauds, MPID cases. 

• Training Unit-VIII - To conduct training of crime investigation for police officers and employees in the financial crime department. 

• Intelligence Unit-IX - To collect confidential information about fraud and investigate the crime. 

• Admin Unit-X - Administration Unit including Malkhana and Pairavi. 

• MLM Unit-XI - Multi Level Marketing. 

• IPR Unit-XII - Intellectual Property Rights. 

Crime Branch CONTROL (C.B. Control) Unit

Crime Branch Control is primarily responsible for cases under Essential Commodities Act, Copy Right Act, Food Safety Act, Trademark Act, Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Control Orders issued under Essential Commodities Act.

The recent priority is to eliminate milk adulteration, sale of banned Gutkha, and scented tobacco products within Mumbai jurisdiction and eliminate adulteration and pilferage of oil/petroleum Products.

Sales Tax Unit

Sales Tax Unit came into existence vide: G. R. No. FD/STD/1277/63/77/ADM-8 dated 21.04.1977 to investigate cases involving violation of Sales Tax Act and has jurisdiction over entire Mumbai Police Commissionerate. This Unit is primarily responsible for cases involving VAT evasion. 

Both Crime Branch Control (C.B.Control) and Sales Tax Units work under the direct supervision of DCP (STF)