The appointment of Sheikh Sajjad Ali as the commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and Baharul Alam as the new inspector general of police is the second largest police reorganization since the Awami League government’s fall three months ago.
Baharul was picked for the top job on Wednesday and he will replace incumbent police chief Md Mainul Islam.
Both Alam and Sajjad, retired officers from the 1984 batch of the Bangladesh Civil Service (police) cadre, will serve for the next two years.
Sajjad, appointed on the same day, will succeed DMP Commissioner Md Mainul Hasan.
Both Alam and Sajjad, retired officers from the 1984 batch of the Bangladesh Civil Service (police) cadre, will serve for the next two years.
Former head of the Special Branch of police Baharul served as a police liaison officer in the Peacekeeping Division at the United Nations Headquarters from 2009 to 2013.
In 2015, he worked as a senior police advisor for the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Afghanistan.
He also held responsibilities in Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone. This officer, who was passed over for promotion twice, retired in 2020.
Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on Aug 5, the then IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun went into hiding. The very next midnight, Mainul took over as the new police chief.
DMP Commissioner Mainul was appointed on Aug 6, after serving as the deputy inspector general of the Criminal Investigation Department of police.
