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Rangpur Metropolitan Police
Specialized police unit of the Bangladesh Police From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Rangpur Metropolitan Police is a police unit of the Bangladesh Police.[1][2] Rangpur Metropolitan Police started its all out operational activities on 16 September 2018.[3][4] Nure Alam Mina is the commissioner of Rangpur Metropolitan Police.[5]
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History
The government of Bangladesh announced plans to establish the Rangpur Metropolitan Police and Gazipur Metropolitan Police in December 2015 in a cabinet meeting chaired by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.[6]
The cabinet approved the draft of a law to establish the Rangpur Metropolitan Police.[7]
The Rangpur Metropolitan Police was established by the "Rangpur Metropolitan Police Act, 2018" passed in the National Assembly of Bangladesh on 12 April 2018.[8][9]
In April 2019, the Kotwali police station officer-in-charge was accused of sexual harassment of a female councillor who had gone to the police station.[10]
Nazmul Quader, officer in charge of Haragach Police Station of Rangpur Metropolitan Police, was closed for letting a rapist go from police custody in February 2020.[11]
Justices Mamnoon Rahman and Khandaker Diliruzzaman of Bangladesh High Court issued an order asking the Rangpur Metropolitan Police to explain the custodial death of a man in November 2021.[12]
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