The government yesterday appointed retired deputy inspector general Baharul Alam as the inspector general of police......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>
In another development, former additional inspector general of police Sk Md Sazzat Ali was made the new Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner.
The changes in the two top posts of the police administration came over three months after the new IGP and DMP commissioner were picked when the Awami League government was ousted from power on August 5.
The public administration ministry yesterday issued two circulars that stated that they were appointed for two years on contract.
Baharul, an 84 BCS batch cadre officer, replaced incumbent IGP Mainul Islam while Sazzat succeeded current DMP Commissioner Mainul Hasan.
Mainul Islam, a 12th BCS police cadre officer, and Mainul Islam, a 17th BCS police cadre officer, were appointed IGP and DMP commissioner on August 7 following the fall of the AL government.
Sources in the home and public administration ministries said Mainul Islam will be made either a secretary or an ambassador to a country.
In the evening, Local Government Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan told a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy that they have brought changes to the posts to improve law and order.
The circulars say the appointments of new IGP and DMP commissioner are conditional upon severing ties with any other professions, businesses, or work engagements.
“This order has been issued in the public interest, and other terms of the appointments will be determined by the contract,” the circulars read.
Baharul of Kishoreganj joined the police service in 1986. He served as the chief of the Special Branch (SB) and held various key roles at the Police Headquarters. From 2009 to 2013, he worked as a police liaison officer at the United Nations Headquarters’ Department of Peacekeeping Operations. In 2015, he worked as a senior police adviser to the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Afghanistan.
He also served in Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone.
Baharul, who served as additional IGP (current charge) at the PHQ, was deprived of promotion twice and went into retirement in 2019.
On November 17, the home ministry issued a circular stating that Sazzat has been considered reinstated in the police service retrospectively from November 3, 2016, in accordance with a court order.
Sazzatis also a member of the Police Reform Commission.
