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DHAKA, Sept 6, 2025 (BSS) - The opening ceremony to mark the formal launching of the training programme on enhancing the skills and capacity of the police to perform election duties professionally.

Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury is likely to formally inaugurate the training programme at Rajarbagh Police Auditorium in the capital tomorrow morning.

More than 1.5 lakh policemen will be trained through the training programme to perform duties to help secure the planned national elections in February next year.

Police Headquarters HR department has by now formulated nine training modules over the past three months, incorporating suggestions of election experts and lawyers under the dynamic leadership of the IGP (Inspector General of Police) and the Additional IGP for HR.

The expected the course would be effective in preparing the police personnel to deal with any law and order situation successfully during the polls.

Bangladesh Police has 130 smaller and four larger training centres across the country where police personnel would be trained under the course outline for election duties.

The Police Headquartersl developed two documentaries, a 15-minute audiovisual content and a nine-minute film, alongside a booklet.

The police already trained 150 master trainers under the modules at the PHQ in Dhaka from August 31 to September 2 and planned to develop 1,292 master trainers or trainers of trainers (ToT) at 19 police training centres across the country in the coming days.

The trainers would later train more than 1.5 lakh police personnel to be on polls duty.