CIN number

The section 28 (13) docket was not authorized with a CIN number initially; the CIN number is an internal inquiry reference issued when the docket is signed off.

“If I remember correctly, they had not been, it was only later on that a CIN number was allocated to the matter. ... A CIN number is our internal inquiry reference number. We generally do not even use the CAS numbers where they are already authorized. But because I did not have a CIN number and we were in possession of dockets, but it did not make sense which docket to use, I had asked her to advise.”

Investigation cases initially have no CAS number but are allocated a CIN (inquiry) number which may contain many legs (sub-investigations) under that inquiry number, especially in crime intelligence cases involving multiple individuals.

“When you look at all the cases, the inquiry is on Crime Intelligence. It is, how can I put it to you, it is one investigation that has many legs, so it is got one inquiry number, so we use that reference... the inquiry number is CIN with different legs in it”

The CIN reference number includes a serial number and a date indicating the inquiry's opening date, here stated as 12 December 2024, marking the start of a broad Crime Intelligence inquiry.

“It is a serial number... When you look at it, it is December 2024... the 12th December 2024”