Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Thursday said it reshuffled the postings and assignments of the deputy commissioners (DCs) within its purview in the capital amid nationwide rearrangements in bureaucracy including police administration ahead of planned February election.
A DMP statement said 13 of its deputy commissioners would interchange their postings the order would come to effect immediately until further directive.
DMP spokesman and deputy commissioner Muhammad Talebur Rahman said the major reshuffle in DC level police officers was aimed at ensuring neutrality, proper execution of duties and a stabilizing possible law and order situations during the general election.
DMP currently have 59 deputy commissioner level officers with oversight duties at its different divisions, units and headquarters.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has reshuffled the officers-in-charge (OCs) of 50 police stations under its jurisdiction ahead of the upcoming national election. In a separate move, 14 deputy commissioners of DMP were reassigned across different divisions. The transfer orders were issued today through three circulars signed by DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzat Ali.
According to the circulars, the police inspectors have been transferred or reassigned in the public interest, with the orders remaining in force until further instructions.
On December 2, the government appointed or transferred 527 police officials as OCs across the country through a lottery system. Police Headquarters had earlier sought "honest and impartial" inspectors and prepared a list, which included both new and existing OCs.
Earlier, the interim government appointed DCs or SPs in 64 districts and 527 OCs through lottery system.
