Four assistant superintendents of police (ASPs), including a female officer, have completed Aviation Basic Course 12.
They are Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md. Sarwar Hossain, Senior ASP Md Mushfiqul Haque, ASP Fatema-Tuz-Zohra and ASP Md Abul Hossain.
The police officers with six others from different forces participated in the basic course at Army Aviation School.
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Among the trainees, five from Army completed 70 hours of flying training on the Cessna-152 Aerobat aircraft. Also, five of Navy and police completed 70 hours of flying training on the Diamond DA-40NG aircraft.
Captain Md Abu Talha Arefin ASC was selected as the best pilot among the trainees of the Cessna-152 Aerobat aircraft, and Senior ASP Md Sarwar Hossain was selected as the best pilot of the Diamond DA-40NG aircraft.
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ASP Fatema-Tuz-Zohra achieved the honour of being the first woman pilot of police.
Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed distributed certificates to the new pilots at a programme at the Army Aviation School Monday afternoon and awarded them flying brevets.
Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun and senior military and civilian officials were also present.