Monirul Islam (police officer)
Monirul Islam | |
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মো: মনিরুল ইসলাম | |
| Chief of Special Branch (Bangladesh) | |
| In office 14 March 2021 – 13 August 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Mir Shahidul Islam |
| Succeeded by | Md Shah Alam |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 June 1970 |
| Alma mater | Police Training Bangladesh Police Academy |
| Known for | Chief of Special Branch |
| Awards | Bangladesh Police Medal, BPM (Bar) President Police Medal, PPM (bar) |
| Police career | |
| Unit | Dhaka Metropolitan Police |
| Allegiance | Bangladesh |
| Department | Special Branch |
| Branch | Bangladesh Police |
| Service years | 1995–2024 |
| Status | Fugitive |
| Rank | Addl. IGP |
Md. Monirul Islam (born 15 June 1970) is former additional inspector general of the Bangladesh Police who served as head of the Special Branch.
The position of chief (joint commissioner, carrying the rank of additional deputy inspector general) of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and the official spokesperson of this unit earned him much publicity, albeit, he came into wide attention as the point-man of the nation's counter terrorism offensive following Holey Artisan Bakery mayhem on July 1, 2016 (the grisly killing by violent extremists of twenty-two lives: nineteen foreigners, three natives and two higher rank police personnel) as the chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) that he pioneered, and is at the helm till date. It subsequently, spotted and cracked a number of terror-dens as well as curbed down the soaring extremist graph by neutralizing a good many violent-operators.