| Honorific Prefix: | Additional Inspector General of Police | ||||||||||||||||
| Mohammad Ali Mia | |||||||||||||||||
| Native Name: | মোহাম্মদ আলী মিয়া | ||||||||||||||||
| Office: | 15th Chief of Criminal Investigation Department | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Mahbubur Rahman | ||||||||||||||||
| Appointer: | Minister of Home Affairs | ||||||||||||||||
| Termstart: | 29 October 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Gopalganj, Bangladesh | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Bangladeshi | ||||||||||||||||
| Awards: | Bangladesh Police Medal (BPM) President Police Medal (PPM) | ||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | University of Dhaka Bangladesh Police Academy | ||||||||||||||||
| Education: | MSS (Criminology) MSS (Economics) MBA (Human Resource Management) | ||||||||||||||||
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Mohammad Ali Mia is a Bangladeshi police officer and an additional inspector general of police in the Bangladesh Police. He is the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Earlier, he was the chief of the Tourist Police.[1] He was posted in different posts of Bangladesh Police. Among them, he served as police's special branch (SB) DIG, Additional DIG of Dhaka Range as well as SP of Habiganj and Manikganj districts.[2]
Mia is from Gopalganj District.[3]
Mia joined the Bangladesh Police as an assistant superintendent of police in 15 November 1995. During the 2001 to 2006 Bangladesh Nationalist Party government he was sidelined for being from Gopalganj. He served in the Criminal Investigation Department as an additional superintendent of police. In 2007, he was stationed in a diplomatic mission of Bangladesh.
In 2007, Mia was the deputy commissioner of traffic of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.[4] He took actions against 1500 illegal tuktuks and praised the media for their reporting that brought attention to the issue. Mia served as the superintendent of police of Narsingdi District, Manikganj District and Habiganj District .[5] [6]
In 2013, Mia was serving as the additional DIG of Special Branch when he was transferred to Rajshahi Range Police.[7]
Mia was made the chief of Criminal Investigation Department on 23 August 2022.[8] He had been serving as the head of the Tourist Police after replacing Mahbubur Rahman. As CID chief, he talked about his intention to crack down on Hundi networks due to the volatile situation of the foreign currency exchange market in Bangladesh.[9] [10] [11] He played critical role in uncovering the illegal Hundi businesses carried out by the MFS agents and their distributions houses.[12] Furthermore, he spearheaded CID in targeting different financial institutions, organized crime syndicates, real estate firms, trade-based sectors and even non-profitable organizations on allegations of money laundering.[13] He enhanced and expanded the services of the Cyber Monitoring Cell of CID to combat cyber crime rackets such as fraud apps, Ponzi scheme based e-commerce websites, betting apps etc.[14] [15] His led the initiative is the drive against medical examination question paper leakers who had been active in their criminal operation for the last 16 years.[16] [17]