Krishna Pada Roy

Krishna Pada Roy is a retired additional inspector general of the Bangladesh Police and former commissioner of the Chattogram Metropolitan Police. He is a former additional commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Career Roy joined the Bangladesh Police through the 15th batch of the Bangladesh Civil Service.

From 2001 to 2006, during the Bangladesh Nationalist Party rule, Roy was placed in unimportant positions along with fellow Hindu officers and officers from Gopalganj District and Faridpur District who were perceived as being loyal to the opposition Awami League. He was stationed at the Bangladesh Police Academy. He was transferred from special superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department in Rajshahi District in August 2008 to superintendent of police in Chandpur District. In May 2009, Roy was the superintendent of police in Chandpur District when 30 homes were burned down in an arson attack over char land.

Roy provided security to a rally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2010 as they attempted to lay siege to the Bangladesh Election Commission office over the by-election in Bhola District. In 2011, Roy was elected assistant publicity and publication secretary of the Bangladesh Police Service Association.

In April 2012, police officers under Roy, who was then the deputy commissioner (Ramna Zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, assaulted two journalists from Samakal and Kaler Kantho at the University of Dhaka. Roy assured the journalists that action would be taken against the involved police officers. On 3 December 2014, Roy, then deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch (South), arrested three Rohingya linked with Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and the 2014 Burdwan blast in India. They were arrested after a tip-off from the National Investigation Agency of India. He launched a new format for filing general diaries with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. He investigated the murder of Niloy Chatterjee.

In 2017, Roy was the joint commissioner of crime in the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. His team investigated the son of the owner of Apan Jewellers for rape at the Raintree Hotel in Dhaka.

Roy spoke at the launch of JOY, a mobile application developed by the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs for women to report violence against them and seek aid from law enforcement, at the Bangladesh Shishu Academy. In November 2018, Roy was promoted to deputy inspector general of police.

In 2019, Roy led the police action to arrest those involved with the murder of Abrar Fahad.

On 29 July 2020, Roy was the additional police commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police of crime when a bomb exploded at Pallabi Police Station under his command. The bomb was hidden in a weight scale seized by the police as evidence. He praised the Bangladesh Police and the government for increasing the posts for senior officers, which he said would help reduce crime in Dhaka. He told the media that criminals were using the face mask requirement during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh to hide their identity.

On 18 July 2022, Roy was appointed the commissioner of the Chattogram Metropolitan Police. He was serving as the additional police commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Roy was sent to forced retirement after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government in August 2024.