BANGLADESH FIRE SERVICE & CIVIL DEFENCE

Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence[1] is a department responsible rescue missions in Bangladesh including fire safety, safety during air raids and any kind of disaster. Emergency hotline for fire service is 999. The Present Director General is Brigadier General Sazzad Hossin.

History:
In 1982, "Fire Service", the fire defence agency and "Civil Defence", the unarmed warning and rescue force and the general rescue force, was amalgamated into Bangladesh Fire Service & Civil Defence. In 2016 China agreed to donate 1000 firefighting bikes.

Chain of Command:

  1. Director General
  2. Director /Project Director
  3. Deputy Director/Principal
  4. Assistant Director/ Vice Principal
  5. Deputy Assistant Director/Instructor/ Senior Staff officer/PO cum Adjutant/ Mobilizing Officer
  6. Senior Station Officer/ Asst Instructor/Officer in charge(Control Room)/ Store Officer
  7. Warehouse Inspector
  8. Station Officer/ Staff officer/ Junior Instructor/Mobilizing Officer
  9. Sub Officer
  10. Leader
  11. Fireman/ Nurse/ Driver/ Operator
  12. Helper
  13. Worker

Manpower:

Female officers were first inducted into the DMP in 1978. The DMP also raised a Special Women Police Contingent in 2008 with the intention of developing a special unit consisting only of women that would investigate crimes involving female criminals. An assistant commissioner heads the SWPC force of 24 women officers.


Stations:

There are more than 340 stations, some first class having a Senior Station officer, more manpower and cars, the rest are second class having a station officer and less manpower. There are only 5 river stations in a country where flows 230 rivers.