Two former inspectors general of police AKM Shahidul Haque and Chowdhury Abdullah-Al-Mamun were arrested on Tuesday midnight in Dhaka.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Media cell confirmed the news with separate messages at about 1:00am on Wednesday.
Former IGP Mamun was in the Military custody and he wished to surrender, said DMP additional deputy commissioner for media and public relations Obaidur Rahman Shamim.
He was taken into police custody as the former IGP was accused in several murder cases.
DMP in another release said that former IGP Shahidul was arrested in sector-16 of Uttara area.
Shamim, however, could not confirm in which case Shahidul was arrested.
Both of them were IGPs during the regime of the ousted prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and they went into hiding after the fall of Awami League-led government on August 5 amid a student led mass uprising.