A gazette notification in this regard was issued by the Home Ministry’s Public Security Division on Wednesday.
He will be on post-retirement leave (PRL) from October 30 this year to October 29 next year.
He will be entitled to retirement and post-retirement leave benefits as per government rules, it added.
The tenure of DMP Commissioner Shafiqul Islam was extended for another year in 2021. On September 13, 2019 he took the responsibility as 34th Commissioner of DMP.
He began his career in 1989 as Assistant Superintendent of Police as the 8th Bangladesh Civil Service cadre (police).
Earlier he served as Additional Inspector General of Police in the Crime Investigation Bureau of Bangladesh police.
Source: United News of Bangladesh