The government has transferred and reassigned seven senior police officers, including Additional Inspectors General of Police (Addl IGPs) and Deputy Inspectors General (DIGs), in a major reshuffle at the top level of the police administration.
The Home Ministry’s Police-1 branch disclosed the changes in a notification issued on Tuesday (November 3). Signed by Deputy Secretary Tousif Ahmed on behalf of the President, the order said the changes, made in the public interest, would take immediate effect.
Under the reshuffle, Additional IGP Md Ahsan Habib Palash, Director General of the Special Branch of Railway (SRB), has been transferred to the Police Headquarters as an Additional IGP. Additional IGP Faruk Ahmed of Highway Police has been appointed Director General of the SRB.
Additional IGP Md Saiedur Rahman of Police Headquarters has been transferred to Highway Police, while Additional IGP Gazi Jasim Uddin of Industrial Police has been posted to Police Telecom Organisation at Rajarbagh.
Meanwhile, Md Israil Howlader, who was serving as Commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) with the rank of DIG, has been promoted to Additional IGP and appointed to Industrial Police.
DIG Md Ashik Saeed of Rajshahi Range has been transferred as GMP Commissioner, while Railway Police DIG Mir Ashraf Ali has been posted as DIG of Rajshahi Range.
-MT