The Police Headquarters is planning to propose promotion of 550 police officials to superintendents of police keeping them in the offices they are serving now.   

Police authorities must unearth the truth behind questionable DB raid and arrests in 2016

Ali Hossain Fakir, former commanding officer of Armed Police Battalion-3, was sent into forced retirement this afternoon citing public interest.

Two Additional Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police were sent into forced retirement this afternoon citing public interest, two weeks after three SPs also sent to retirement.

Newly appointed Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq today said police have nothing to do with politics.

It is imperative to bring the police under a system of accountability that earns public confidence.

Mirza Abdullahel Baqui, one of the three superintendents of police sent into retirement today, said he had no idea about his early retirement.

Complaints about police’s involvement in various crimes continue to pile up thanks to lenient disciplinary measures that embolden errant cops, say criminologists and legal experts. 

It is unfortunate that custodial torture continues to be pervasive in Bangladesh, which has enacted the Torture and Custodial Death (Prohibition) Act, 2013.

His family deserves transparent investigation into his death in police custody

Just over a week after a major reshuffle of the district superintendents of police, all eyes are on the police department in anticipation of possible changes in the top brass.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told the parliament today that a new law for the Bangladesh Police will be enacted keeping in view of the current situation and turning police into a more people-friendly and service-oriented organisation.

Two police constables who went to the Netherlands for an official training exercise remain missing since May 22, the day before they were supposed to fly back to Bangladesh.

Two policemen, including Sylhet Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge, were injured after activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir attacked them in Sylhet city this afternoon.

Three pedestrians were critically injured in the violence. Nahid Mia and Morsalin were among them.

In the US, being Black or just a person of colour is enough to get one killed or arrested by a cop, merely for being at the wrong place at the wrong time—or even the right place at the right time.

Five policemen, including the officer-in-charge (OC) of Mollahat Police Station, were injured in an attack allegedly by Hefajat-e Islam activists in Bagerhat this morning.

Police this morning barred the victims of the Tazreen Fashions factory fire when they tried to go to the capital’s Gono Bhaban from Jatiya Press Club to press home their three-point demand.

Police recovered body of a two-year-old from a bin of a building in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area this morning.

Police have arrested a man for allegedly raping his 12-year-old speech-impaired niece in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria.