Fatema Begum is a retired Additional Inspector General of Bangladesh Police, second highest rank, and the first woman to join the police as a cadre officer of the Bangladesh Civil Service.
[2] Begum was born on 14 April 1958 in Munshiganj District, East Bengal, Pakistan.
[3] She graduated from the Central Women's College and her masters at the University of Dhaka in botany.
[3] She studied at the University of Adelaide with a scholarship from Australian Aid.
[3] She was an Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.