BREAKING NEWSTop 5 police positions to get Grade-I status

The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after 00:00:59.5781250. Increase the timeout value passed to the call to Request or increase the SendTimeout value on the Binding. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout. Dhaka, Jan 3 (bdnews24.com) ? Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday announced that top five police positions would be upgraded to Grade-I, a pay scale only the inspector general of police (IGP) currently enjoys.

"The ministry has been instructed in this regard. The government took the decision on special consideration, though other countries don't have this," she told the opening of the Police Week ? 2012 at Rajarbagh Police Lines in the morning.

She also announced that the post of police inspector would be upgraded from the second class to the first class and that of sub-inspector to the second class.

Under the current pay scale, the post of the police chief is a secretary-level position. Police coordinator Fani Bhushan Chowdhury also enjoys facilities for Grade-I position as he ranks same as the IGP.

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