News Desk :
Bangladesh-origin American Shamsul Haque was promoted to the rank of Lt Commander in the
Detective Squad of New York Police Department, a first for any Bangladeshi in the NYPD.
He received the promotion at a ceremony at NYPD’s Police Academy in Queens, New York on January 29, according to the media.
Shamsul is also the first South Asian to achieve the rank in NYPD.
In a tweet, Bangladeshi American Police Association (Bapa) congratulated Shamsul, also the co-founder and former president of the association.
He was born in Bagha village of Golapganj in Sylhet. But the journey of Shamsul Haque began when he dropped out of middle school in Bangladesh and moved to the United States in 1991.
