The government is considering overtime allowances for the ranks from constable to inspector for performing additional duty beyond regular hours and honorary promotions for constables, assistant sub-inspectors and sub-inspectors as many lower rank officers went into retirement after serving 40 years in the same post.
Addressing as special guest the ‘Prime Minister’s Special Social Welfare Meeting’ at the Rajarbagh Police Lines auditorium in the capital on the occasion of Police Week-2026 on Sunday, home minister Salahuddin Ahmed said that many constables retired after 40 years of service without receiving a single promotion.
‘To address this, based on special policies and satisfactory service records, a certain number of police members will be granted honorary promotions at the time of retirement -- from constable to honorary assistant sub-inspector, from ASI to honorary sub-inspector, and from SI to honorary inspector,’ he said.
This year’s theme of the Police Week is ‘Amar police, amar desh, sobar agey Bangladesh’ (my police, my country, Bangladesh comes first).
Salahuddin added that the government was considering the introduction of an overtime allowance for police personnel performing duties beyond regular hours based on special policies to make policing more dynamic and effective.
‘This initiative, likely covering the ranks from inspector down to constable, is expected to boost the [police] morale and improve the quality of [police] service,’ he added.
He said that demands from the police would be met on a rational basis, including housing and health facilities.
He also disclosed that a committee had already been formed to draft more modern and up-to-date laws to prevent gambling, online gambling, cybercrimes, and money laundering.
‘Legislation will be enacted based on the recommendations of this committee,’ he said.
Addressing as chief guest at the inauguration ceremony of the Police Week-2026, prime minister Tarique Rahman said that fascism or autocracy should not be allowed ever again be able to use police members against the independence of Bangladesh and its people.
‘Standing on this soil -- stained with the blood of police during the very first moment of independence -- let us today once again commit ourselves to a new oath,’ the state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha said quoting the PM as saying.
The prime minister said that the present government -- formed with the people’s verdict after a bloody student-people mass uprising in 2024 as a result of more than one and a half decades of movement and struggle against fascism -- reflected the aspirations of the country’s freedom-loving and democracy-seeking people.
The PM also said that everyone should respect all police members martyred in the War of Independence
‘This is that historic Rajarbagh Police Lines where on the night of March 25, 1971 the occupation forces carried out a barbaric crackdown under the name of “Operation Searchlight” on sleeping police personnel and killed hundreds of them,’ he further said.
The police force placed several proposals to the prime minister, including the establishment of a cybercrime unit for the Bangladesh Police to ensure cyber security and prevent cybercrimes across the country, and an independent pay commission for the police like the judiciary.
Other proposals include establishing a Bangladesh Police Medical Service to widen medical services at the Central Police Hospital, division and district levels, establishing two police training centres in Sylhet and Barishal along with the creation of a special training institute at Jungle Salimpur in Chattogram, building a Bangladesh Police Sports Complex, appointing liaison officers at all embassies along with posting of police officers at the Anti-Corruption Commission, Department of Narcotics Control, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, according to police headquarters officials.
The police will also uge prime minister Tarique Rahman to establish an Aviation Police unit to contain extremism, drug, arms smuggling, human trafficking and organised crimes in remote and risky areas, they said, adding that the police had already procured two helicopters and trained two police officers as pilot and 40 police officers in helicopter maintenance.
