Govt sends 17 senior police officials into compulsory retirement
The retired officials include DIGs, additional DIGs, a joint police commissioner and a police superintendent serving in various police units.
The government has placed 17 senior Bangladesh Police officials on compulsory retirement through separate gazette notifications issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The notifications, issued today (23 July), signed by Senior Secretary of the Public Security Division Manzur Morshed Chowdhury, by order of the president, said the officers would receive retirement benefits in accordance with existing service rules.
The officials sent into compulsory retirement include Highway Police DIG Mohammad Abdullahil Baki; CID Additional DIG Mohammad Sarwar Hossain; Tourist Police Additional DIG Bidhan Tripura; Police Staff College Additional DIG Dr AKM Iqbal Hossain; Sarda DIG Md Walid Hossain; APBn Additional DIG Sohely Ferdous; CID Additional DIG Rebeka Sultana; Sarda Additional DIG Mohammad Tabarak Ullah; Rangpur Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Md Habibur Rahman; Dhaka Police Telecom Additional DIG Hasina Rahman; Police Headquarters Additional DIG (attached to Central Police Hospital) Faisal Mahmud; Police Headquarters Additional DIG Kaniz Fatema; Tourist Police Additional DIG Sultana Nazma Hossain; Naval Police Additional DIG Jesmin Begum; TDS Superintendent of Police Abdur Rahim Shah Chowdhury; CID DIG Sana Shasinur Rahman; and DMP Joint Police Commissioner (Additional DIG) Mosammat Farida Yasmin.
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The gazette notifications did not specify any reasons for the compulsory retirements.
The BNP-led government has continued the policy of compulsory retirement within the police administration introduced during the interim government.
Earlier, on 5 July, the government sent 33 police officials of the ranks of deputy inspector general (DIG), additional deputy inspector general (Additional DIG) and superintendent of police (SP) into compulsory retirement under Section 45 of the relevant law.
Prior to that, on 3 May, the government compulsorily retired 17 senior police officials, including 16 DIGs and one additional inspector general of police (Additional IGP).
With today's decision to compulsorily retire another 17 officials, at least 67 police officers have been sent into compulsory retirement so far this year.
The government has taken such decisions in multiple phases over the past year as part of a broader reorganisation of the police administration following the political transition.
