Shafiqul Islam

Shafiqul Islam (born 30 October 1962) is a retired police officer who served as the 34th Police commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. He was made the DMP commissioner on 14 September 2019. He previously served as the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department. Early life Islam was born on 30 October 1962 at Alamdanga in Chuadanga District of the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He graduated in agriculture from Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in 1984. He joined Bangladesh Police force on 20 December 1987 through 8th BCS Examination. Career Islam joined Bangladesh Police as the Assistant Superintendent of Police through 8th BCS. In his career he served as Superintendent of Railway Police of Saidpur, Narayanganj District, 8th Armed Police Battalion of Sylhet District, Patuakhali District, Police Staff College, 2nd Armed Police Battalion of Chittagong District, Sunamganj District and Comilla District. Being Additional Deputy Inspector General Islam served as Additional Commissioner of Police, Chittagong Metropolitan Police. Later as DIG he served as Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police. He had previously been the Deputy Inspector General of Chittagong Range and Dhaka Range. In 2015, he was transferred from Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police to the Deputy Inspector General of Telecommunication & Information Management.