Benazir Ahmed


Benazir Ahmed is a Bangladeshi police officer. In April 2020, he was selected as the Inspector General of Bangladesh Police.

Education

Ahmed studied English literature at Dhaka University and did PhD in Business Administration from an american university.

Career

Ahmed joined Bangladesh Police Service as Assistant Superintendent of Police in 1988. He served in various appointments all along his career. He has also received many professional trainings from home and abroad. He was deprived of promotion allegedly during the government of Bangladesh Nationalist Party as part of discrimination against police officers from Gopalganj and police officers from minority religions. He was the former Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. He criticized Transparency International Bangladesh report on Bangladesh police which he described as criticizing the Police "cruelly" and "unjustly" in 2013. He is the former Director General of Rapid Action Battalion. He was made the Inspector General of Bangladesh Police in April 2020.

Awards and Medals