Two Additional Inspector General of Police (Additional IGP), five Additional Deputy Inspector General of Police (Additional DIG), and 48 Superintendents of Police have been reassigned to new roles followed by nationwide unstable situation centering the quota reformation movement that has claimed at least 147 lives including those of law enforcement officials.
The transfers were announced in four separate notifications from the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday.
Many of the transferred Superintendents of Police have recently been promoted. With the new notification, they are now posted to various new positions.
A total of 48 Superintendents of Police have been posted and transferred to various police units across different districts.
Among the two additional IGPs, Deputy Inspector General of Police Telecom (promoted to the post of Supernumerary Additional IGP) AKM Shahidur Rahman has been posted as the Additional IGP in the PHQ, and additional IGP (supernumerary) Krishna Pada Roy also posted in the PHQ.
Among the five additional DIGs, who were transferred to different posts, Sakhawat Hossain, who was attached to the PHQ transferred to the Tourist Police, Akkas Uddin Bhuyan of the Sarda Police Academy transferred to the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of Dhaka, Asad Ullah Chowdhury of ATU has been transferred to the River Police, Enamul Kabir of the Sylhet Range Office has been transferred to the Armed Police Battalion and Specialized Training Center, Khagrachari, and Mir Modasser Hossain of the Armed Police Battalion and Specialized Training Center, Khagrachari has been transferred to the Highway Police.