DHAKA, June 11, 2023 (BSS)-The government today promoted eight Additional Deputy Inspectors General (Adi-DIG) of Police to the rank of the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the police.

Public Security Division of the Home Ministry today issued a gazette notification in this regard.

The Home Ministry has given the promotion to the police officials upon a recommendation by the Superior Selection Board (SSB) at a meeting held on May 21last. Later, the Prime Minister approved the recommendations on June 10 (yesterday).

According to the ministry notification, the newly promoted officers are-DIG (Current Charge) of Railway Police Md Shah Alam, Additional DIG of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) AKM Nahidul Islam, Additional DIG of the Special Branch (SB) Rakhfar Sultana Khanam, Acting DIG of CID Shaymol Kumar Nath, Joint Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Md Zakir Hossain Khan, Additional DIG Mohammad Abdullaheel Baki, Joint Commissioner of the DMP Biplob Bejoy Talukder and  Additional DIG of the SB Md Muniruzzaman.