The Highway Police is a specialized unit of the Bangladesh Police that is responsible for law enforcement on Bangladesh roads.[1] [2] The unit is led by an Additional inspector general of Bangladesh Police.[3] [4]
| Agencyname: | Highway Police Bangladesh |
| Nativename: | হাইওয়ে পুলিশ |
| Motto: | Disciplined Secured Highway |
| Formed: | 11 June 2005 |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Police: | Yes |
| Headquarters: | 34, Shahjalal Avenue, Sector # 4, Uttara, Dhaka-1230 |
| Chief1name: | Md. Shahabuddin Khan |
| Chief1position: | Additional Inspector General |
| Parentagency: | Bangladesh Police |
The Highway Police was established on 11 June 2005 by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. It can only investigate crimes under a few sections of Penal Code 1860 and the Motor Vehicle Ordinance, 1983.[5] The Highway Police has jurisdiction over 5,487 kilometre of national highways and 4,165 kilometre of local roads.[6]
On 28 August 2018, the Highway Police suspended the Officer in Charge of Bonpara Highway Police Station GM Shamsun Nur. This was after a bus without proper registration papers was involved in a fatal road accident in which 15 people died.[7]
| Syed Shahjaman Raj | 11 June 2005 | 20 October 2005 | [8] | |
| Sheikh Mohammad Sazzad Ali | 20 October 2005 | 22 March 2006 | ||
| Md. Amir Uddin | 22 March 2006 | 27 November 2006 | ||
| Mohammad Najibur Rahman | 3 December 2006 | 8 February 2007 | ||
| Md. Saiful Alam | 4 March 2007 | 14 April 2007 | [9] | |
| M. Sadikur Rahman | 12 June 2007 | 31 August 2008 | ||
| Md. Sohorab Hossain | 31 August 2008 | 24 February 2011 | ||
| Md. Humayun Kabir | 24 February 2011 | 5 November 2012 | ||
| Md. Asaduzzaman Mia | 5 November 2012 | 7 January 2015 | ||
| Mallik Faqrul Islam | 18 January 2015 | 31 October 2016 | ||
| Md. Atiqul Islam | 6 November 2016 | 2 July 2019 | ||
| Mahbubur Rahman | 17 June 2019 | 5 May 2020 |