STAFF CORRESPONDENT

In a rare administrative decision, the government has made 82 senior police officials Officers on Special Duty (OSD), including an additional inspector general of police, who served during the 2018 national election.

The officials include additional IG Abdul Alim Mahmud, 13 deputy inspectors general (DIGs), 49 additional DIGs, and 19 Superintendents of Police (SPs), according to three separate notifications issued by the Public Security Division of the Home Ministry’s Police-1 branch yesterday.

However, the official orders did not specify the reason behind the decision.

Sources at the home ministry and Police Headquarters confirmed that all 82 officers had been involved in

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