During the 2018 11th National Parliament election held under the Awami League government, the Superintendents of Police (SPs) in charge of 64 districts will also be made OSD and sent on compulsory retirement, said Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan, Advisor to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
He made this information known in a status on his verified Facebook page on Friday (February 21).
There, Asif Mahmud wrote that the SPs in charge of 64 districts in the 2018 night elections will also be sent on OSD/compulsory retirement.
The interim government is taking action against officials who served as returning officers as district commissioners (DCs) in the controversial 2014, 2018 and 2024 elections held during the previous Awami League government. The officials who served as DCs during that time are now joint secretaries, additional secretaries and secretaries.
Forty-three former DCs who served in those three elections were placed on OSD last Wednesday (February 19). The following day, Thursday (February 20), 22 former DCs were sent on compulsory retirement.
Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration Md. Mokhles Ur Rahman said that all the DCs who served in those three elections will be sent on OSD or compulsory retirement in phases.
The Public Administration Secretary also said that OSDs for those with less than 25 years of service are being sent to compulsory retirement, while those with more than 25 years of service are being sent to compulsory retirement.
This time, the announcement of similar punitive measures against SPs came from the advisors of the current interim government's Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
