[1][2] The Rangpur Metropolitan Police[3] started its all out operational activities on 16 September 2018.

[4] Nure Alam Mina is the commissioner of Rangpur Metropolitan Police.

[5] The government of Bangladesh announced plans to establish the Rangpur Metropolitan Police and Gazipur Metropolitan Police in December 2015 in a cabinet meeting chaired by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

[6] The cabinet approved the draft of a law to establish the Rangpur Metropolitan Police.

[11] Justices Mamnoon Rahman and Khandaker Diliruzzaman of Bangladesh High Court issued an order asking the Rangpur Metropolitan Police to explain the custodial death of a man in November 2021.