The government has reshuffled seven senior police positions, including the leadership of the Special Response Battalion (SRB), Highway Police and Industrial Police, as well as Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP).
The transfers and new appointments were announced in a notification signed by Tawsif Ahmed, deputy secretary of the Home Ministry’s Police-1 branch, today (3 November), by order of the president.
Under the reshuffle, SRB Director General Md Ahsan Habib Palash has been transferred to Police Headquarters, while Additional Inspector General of Police Faruk Ahmed, who previously headed Highway Police, has been appointed as the new SRB chief.
Additional IGP Md Sayedur Rahman of Police Headquarters has been given charge of Highway Police.
Meanwhile, Industrial Police chief Additional IGP Gazi Jasim Uddin has been appointed head of the Police Telecom Organisation in Rajarbagh.
Md Israil Howlader, commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police who was recently promoted to the rank of additional IGP, has been appointed as the new chief of Industrial Police.
DIG Md Ashik Saeed of Rajshahi Range has been appointed as the new GMP commissioner, replacing Israil Howlader.
DIG Mir Ashraf Ali of Railway Police has been transferred to Rajshahi Range to replace Ashik Saeed.
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