[1][2] The unit is led by an Additional inspector general of Bangladesh Police.

[3][4] The Highway Police was established on 11 June 2005 by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government.

It can only investigate crimes under a few sections of Penal Code 1860 and the Motor Vehicle Ordinance, 1983.

[6] On 28 August 2018, the Highway Police suspended the Officer in Charge of Bonpara Highway Police Station GM Shamsun Nur.

This was after a bus without proper registration papers was involved in a fatal road accident in which 15 people died.