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Md Tawfique Mahbub Chowdhury

Bangladeshi police officer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ129000454 ↗
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Md. Tawfique Mahbub Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi police officer and principal of the Bangladesh Police Academy. He is an additional IGP (Development) of the Bangladesh Police at Police Headquarters. Earlier, he was chief of the Police Bureau of Investigation. Before that, he was additional IGP (development) at Police Headquarters.

Career

In 2007, Chowdhury was transferred from the Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police to Superintendent of Police of Barisal District. He was next appointed deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

In February 2024, Chowdhury, while serving at the Bangladesh Police headquarters, was promoted to the rank of Additional Inspector General. After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, he was appointed chief of the Police Bureau of Investigation. After which he served as the additional Inspector General (development) of Bangladesh Police and a director of the Community Bank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Md Tawfique Mahbub Chowdhury” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.