134 police officers promoted
A day after the biggest promotion in the civil administration, the government yesterday promoted 134 police officials.
As many as 21 superintendents of police (SPs), deputy commissioners (DCs) or equally ranked officials were promoted to the position of additional deputy inspector general (add DIG) of police, according to a circular issued by the home ministry.
In addition, 113 senior assistant superintendents of police (senior ASPs) or equally ranked officials have been made additional superintendents of police (add SPs).
Moreover, three DIGs and five SPs and DCs have been transferred.
The [police] officials have been transferred or promoted for the sake of “public interest”, says the circular signed by Joint Secretary ASM Emdadud Dastagir of the home ministry.
Contacted, the joint secretary said the promotion and transfer were made as per a routine work and no external affairs were linked with it.
Speaking anonymously, a police official said the lists were prepared about one and a half years ago.
On Monday, the government promoted 227 joint secretaries, 288 deputy secretaries and 321 senior assistant secretaries in the biggest ever promotion in the civil service.
The mass promotion came just over a year after the Awami League-led grand alliance government assumed office through the January 5 national polls last year.
In the reshuffle in police, DIG Binay Krishna Bala has been transferred from the Police Headquarters to Criminal Investigation Department (CID), while Additional Commissioner Mili Biswas and DIG Muhammad Mahbub Muhsin to Police Headquarters from Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and CID respectively.
SPs Jihadul Kabir (Magura), AKM Ehsan Ullah (Barisal), Manjur Morshed Alam (CID) and Taptun Nasrin (Rajbari) and DC SM Aktaruzzaman of DMP have been transferred to Rajbari, Magura, Barisal, Sylhet range and Police Headquarters respectively.
Of the promoted officials, Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam, DCs Krishna Pada Roy, Jahangir Hossain Matubbar, Ekramul Habib and Khandaker Lutful Kabir of DMP and Additional Commissioner AKM Shahidur Rahman of Chittagong Metropolitan Police have been promoted to the rank of additional DIG.
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