Dhaka: Detectives in separate drives arrested 16 fake members of Detective Branch (DB) of police along with four vehicles, pistols, arms, wireless sets, handcuffs, knives, uniforms from different parts of the city on Friday evening and early Saturday.

Tipped off, a DB team (east) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) launched a drive on Banasree Road in Rampura around 1:10am and arrested nine fake DB members while preparing for robbery in the area, said Abdul Baten, joint commissioner of DB at a press conference at DMP media centre on Saturday.

The arrestees are Juwel, Yeasin, Badal, Momen, Shahidul, Feroz, Moniruzzanam, Mohammad Ali, and Sabuj.

The DB team also recovered one foreign made pistol, one magazine, two bullets, two machetes, four knives, one walkie- talkie, three DB uniforms, two handcuffs, and seized two cars and one microbus used by them, he said.

In another drive, seven fake DB members were arrested by another DB team at Ramna around 6:25pm on Friday.

The arrestees were Liton, Bablu, Monir, Saidur, Monir, Mahmudul, Munna and Afzal.

The team also seized a microbus and recovered two toy pistols, one walkie- toki, one handcuff, 17 moible SIMs, seven mobile sets, one army jacket and some other elements, added the DB official.