The government suspended 18 police officers, including additional police commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and former chief of detective branch Mohammad Harun ur Rashid as they had been absent from duty without permission from the authorities concerned...
The justice department reached an agreement on Friday with Washington authorities over control of the US capital鈥檚 police department after president Donald Trump placed it under federal government control to tackle violent crime...
The attorney general for the US capital Washington has sued Donald Trump鈥檚 administration over what he called a 鈥榟ostile takeover鈥� of the city鈥檚 police force, which the Republican president said was necessary to fight violent crime...
A police constable was seriously injured as muggers stabbed him at Kutubkhali Bus Standat in the capital鈥檚 Jatarabari area early Tuesday.
A police sub-inspector was injured as he was allegedly attacked by the leaders and activists of the Awami League and its front organisations after a flash procession in the Ishan Mistrirhat Khalpar area in Chattogram city Monday night.
Shahriar Khan Palash, father of martyr Shahriar Khan Anas, on Monday testified at the International Crimes Tribunal 1 that the man who targeted, shot and subsequently killed his son was in the uniform of Armed Police Battalion...
The government on Sunday sent nine police inspectors (unarmed), who served as officers-in-charge at various police stations during the Awami League regime, into compulsory retirement.
The interim government has revoked Bangladesh Police Medal, BPM in short, and President Police Medal, PPM in short, of 40 fugitive police officials, as they remain absconded from their work stations...
THIS is concerning and a disservice to the spirit of the July uprising that a section of police personnel is still involved in criminal and corrupt activities. The involvement of police personnel in crimes such as extortion, bribery, intimidation and framing innocent people in false cases has continued to make the headlines every other day. The agency is also reported to have taken...
A section of police personnel is still involved in various immoral activities, including extortion, bribery, intimidation and framing innocent people in false cases, even after one year of the July uprising that ousted the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5, 2024.
Police Headquarters in a release on Wednesday said that the police submitted charge sheets in 19 cases, including eight murder cases so far, filed over the incidents of July Uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 authoritarian regime...
Two key witnesses on Wednesday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1, implicating the police, Begum Rokeya University officials, and Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders in the killing of student protester Abu Sayeed during the July 2024 anti-discrimination movement...
Home adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury at the home ministry in Dhaka on Wednesday said that they would transfer SPs and OCs through a lottery before media representatives prior to the announcement of the election schedule...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 parliament voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to dismiss Police Chief Deshabandu Tennakoon for misconduct and criminal behaviour, making him the island鈥檚 first inspector-general to be impeached.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police requested city residents to avoid the Shahbagh, Central Shaheed Minar, and Suhrawardy Udyan areas on Sunday due to large gatherings and multiple scheduled programmes...
The government has revised up the risk allowance for field-level police personnel by maximum 20 per cent and minimum over 5 per cent...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has requested people to avoid the Shahbagh, Central Shaheed Minar and Suhrawardy Udyan areas in the capital Dhaka today due to multiple political programmes scheduled for the day...
The police have seized four cheques for around Tk2.25 crore from the capital鈥檚 Nakhalpara home of Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad leader Abdur Razzaque Bin Solaiman Riyad, who is now in police custody in an extortion case...
The chief adviser鈥檚 press wing on Monday said that about 1.5 lakh police officials would undergo special training on election duties ahead of the next parliamentary polls, expected to be held in mid-February next year.
CNG-run auto-rickshaw owners and workers in Brahmanbaria went on an indefinite strike, protesting alleged harassment by traffic police, extortion, vehicle seizures and corruption related to license renewals...
Political parties on Sunday agreed that no individual should hold office of the prime minister for more than 10 years in his or her lifetime. They have also agreed to the establishment of an independent police commission...
The cabinet on Thursday approved a draft ordinance to majorly change the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898, including a 60-day time frame for investigation and safeguards against arrest and remand.
Sri Lanka鈥檚 police chief is set to be sacked, the country鈥檚 speaker of parliament announced Tuesday after he was found guilty of heading a criminal network at an impeachment hearing...
A large quantity of personal belongings including shirts, pants, T-shirts sarees and shoes seized from a Gulshan duplex of former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed will be put on auction this week...
An individual, claiming himself to be the chief of 鈥楤angabandhu Guerrilla Bahini鈥�, has recently threatened the Kotalipara police station officer-in-charge, warning him of dire consequences regarding law enforcers鈥� action in Gopalganj following the July 16 violence over the National Citizen Party rally there...
THE Police Reform Commission once proposed a five-tier model for the use of force in crowd control. The first two stages emphasised non-contact measures 鈥� verbal communication, negotiation, and the use of barricades to maintain distance and prevent escalation. The third stage cautiously introduced physical force through non-lethal means: batons, gas sprays...
A Dhaka court on Sunday convicted and sentenced Md Hasan Ali, former officer-in-charge of Fatullah police station, to two years imprisonment in a case lodged for concealing information about his wealth...
Khulna Metropolitan Police has inaugurated traffic fine collection service through Community Bank Bangladesh PLC, said a press release...
UK police arrested over 100 people in London and other cities for supporting Palestine Action in a third consecutive weekend of protests over the government's decision to ban the activist group using anti-terror laws....
Sri Lanka's independent regulator has sacked a senior police officer for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners...