Bangladesh’s Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury announced that a total of 897,117 members of law enforcement agencies will be deployed for the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election. He made the statement on Monday afternoon at a press briefing following the 20th meeting of the Advisory Council Committee on Law and Order at the Ministry of Home Affairs in Dhaka.
According to the adviser, the deployment will include 100,000 members of the Bangladesh Army, 5,000 from the Navy, 3,730 from the Air Force, 149,443 from the Police, 576,314 from the Ansar and Village Defence Party, 37,453 from the Border Guard Bangladesh, 3,585 from the Coast Guard, 7,700 from the Rapid Action Battalion, and 13,390 from the Fire Service and Civil Defence as support staff. The total number of personnel across all agencies will reach 897,117.
The announcement underscores the government’s preparation to ensure security and order during the national election, reflecting a large-scale coordination among multiple security forces.