Rangpur Metropolitan Police রংপুর মেট্রোপলিটিন পুলিশ | |
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Abbreviation | RPMP |
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Formed | September 16, 2018 |
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Operations jurisdiction | Rangpur, Bangladesh |
Size | 239.72 square kilometres (92.56 sq mi) |
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General nature | |
Operational structure | |
Headquarters | Kacharibazar, Rangpur |
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Parent agency | Bangladesh Police |
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Stations | 6 |
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The Rangpur Metropolitan Police is a newly formed police unit of the Bangladesh Police, serving Rangpur City Corporation, Haragach Municipality, Sarai Union of Kaunia Upazila, and Kallayni Union of Pirgacha Upazila of Rangpur District. [1] [2] The Rangpur Metropolitan Police [3] started its all out operational activities on 16 September 2018. [4] Nure Alam Mina is the commissioner of Rangpur Metropolitan Police. [5]
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 woman who had gone to the police station. [10]
Nazmul Quader, officer in charge of Haragachh Police Station of Rangpur Metropolitan Police, was closed for letting a rape suspect go from police custody in February 2022. [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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