Mohammad Ali Mia

Mia is from Gopalganj District.[3]

Mia joined Bangladesh Police as an assistant superintendent of police in 15 November 1995. During the 2001 to 2006, Bangladesh Nationalist Party government he was sidelined for being from Gopalganj.[3] He served in the Criminal Investigation Department as an Additional Superintendent of Police.[3] In 2007, he was stationed in a diplomatic mission of Bangladesh.[3]

In 2007, Mia was the Deputy Commissioner of Traffic of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.[4] He took actions against 1500 illegal tuktuks and praised the media for their reporting that brought attention to the issue.[4] Mia served as the Superintendent of Police of Narsingdi District, Manikganj District and Habiganj District .[5] [6]

In 2013, Mia was serving as the Additional DIG of Special Branch when he was transferred to Rajshahi Range Police.[7]

Mia was made the chief of Criminal Investigation Department on 23 August 2022.[8] He had been serving as the head of the Tourist Police after replacing Mahbubur Rahman.[2] As CID chief, he talked about his intention to crack down on Hundi networks due to the volatile situation of the foreign currency exchange market in Bangladesh.[9][10][11]He played critical role in uncovering the illegal Hundi businesses carried out by the MFS agents and their distributions houses.[12] Furthermore, he spearheaded CID in targeting different financial institutions, organized crime syndicates, real estate firms, trade-based sectors and even non-profitable organizations on allegations of money laundering.[13] He greatly enhanced and expanded the services of the Cyber Monitoring Cell of CID to combat cyber crime rackets such as fraud apps, Ponzi Scheme based e-commerce websites, betting apps etc.[14][15] His one of the most acclaimed initiative is the drive against medical examination question paper leakers who had been active in their criminal operation for the last 16 years.[16][17]