Inspector General of Police (Bangladesh)


The Inspector General of Police is the senior-most and highest ranked police officer of Bangladesh and the head of the Bangladesh Police, who oversees all police activities throughout the country. He reports directly to the Ministry of Home Affairs and is appointed by the Government of Bangladesh.

List of IGPs

The Chief of Bangladesh Police is an Inspector General, which is the only three star rank of Bangladesh Police. This is a list of Inspector Generals of Police since 1971:
NameTook officeLeft office
1Ifthi Ali17 April 197123 April 1973
2A. Rahim23 April 197331 December 1973
3A. H. M. Nurul Islam31 December 197321 November 1975
4Hossain Ahmed21 November 197526 August 1978
5A. B. M. G. Kibria26 August 19787 February 1982
6A. M. R. Khan8 February 198231 January 1984
7E. A. Chowdhury1 February 198430 December 1985
8A. R. Khondkar9 January 198628 February 1990
9Toyob Uddin Ahmed28 February 19908 January 1991
10A. M. Chowdhury8 January 199120 July 1991
11Toyob Uddin Ahmed20 July 199116 October 1991
12M. Enamul Huq16 October 19918 July 1992
13A. S. M. Shahjahan8 July 199222 April 1996
14M. Azizul Haque22 July 199616 November 1997
15Md. Ismail Hossain16 November 199727 September 1998
16A.Y.B.I. Siddiqi27 September 19987 June 2000
17Muhammad Nurul Huda7 June 20006 November 2001
18Mudabbir Hossain Chowdhury16 November 200122 April 2003
19Shahudul Haque22 April 200315 December 2004
20Ashraful Huda15 December 20047 April 2005
21Mohammad Hadis Uddin7 April 20057 May 2005
22Abdul Kaium7 May 20056 July 2006
23Anwarul Iqbal6 July 20062 November 2006
24Khoda Baksh Chowdhury2 November 200629 January 2007
25Nur Mohammad29 January 200731 August 2010
26Hassan Mahmood Khandker, BPM, PPM, ndc31 August 201031 December 2014
27AKM Shahidul Haque, BPM, PPM31 December 201430 January 2018
28Mohammad Javed Patwary31 January 201814 April 2020
29Benjir Ahmed15 April 2020Incumbent