Seven senior police officials reshuffled

The government on Tuesday transferred and reassigned seven senior officers, including five of the rank of additional IGP, in a reshuffle that touches the Special Response Battalion (SRB), Highway Police, Industrial Police and Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP).

According to a gazette notification issued by the Police-1 branch of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the reshuffle takes immediate effect “in the public interest”.

Under the order, Additional Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Ahsan Habib Palash, SRB director general, has been transferred to the Police Headquarters, while Faruk Ahmed, additional IGP of Highway Police, replaces him as the battalion DG. 

Md Sayedur Rahman, additional IGP at Police Headquarters, has been transferred to Highway Police.

Gazi Jashim Uddin, additional IGP of Industrial Police, has been appointed to the Police Telecom Organisation at Rajarbagh in the capital.

GMP Commissioner Md Israil Howlader, who has been promoted to additional IGP, takes charge as additional IGP of Industrial Police, while Md Ashik Saeed, DIG of Rajshahi Range, has been appointed GMP commissioner.

Mir Ashraf Ali, DIG of Railway Police, has been posted as DIG of Rajshahi Range.

The order was signed by Deputy Secretary Tousif Ahmed on behalf of the president.