Police reform must enable the force to function freely, fairly, justly, and independently.
The police reform debate seems to be attracting a wider and more serious audience.
It is time for discerning citizens to ponder over the factors and circumstances that have brought us to this precarious condition.
There is no denying that for a long time, the police have been used as a tool of repression in the subcontinent
The catch-all definition of national security must not be used as a cloak to hide abuses.
For police reform to be substantive, the first order of business should be the enactment of a new Police Act
The onus of ensuring malpractice-free management of the police force squarely rests with the police hierarchy.
Wise politicians and erudite jurists have time and again observed that an independent judiciary is the very heart of a republic.
The heart-rending episode of Mohammad Babul's 25-years-long imprisonment and acquittal thereafter without the charge being proved as reported in the media is by all means an indelible slur on our civilised existence.
The humiliating spectacle of the uprooting of the nameplate of an Assistant Commissioner of Customs at his Chittagong office, allegedly by enraged clearing and forwarding agents, along with the transfer of the said official in indecent haste, has unfortunately not evoked the desired reaction.
Police Week 2017 commences from today. It is time to once again dwell on the imperative of police professionalism because to ensure good governance, maintenance of public order and peace are preconditions. In doing so, the rule of law is facilitated that characterises a democratic society.
A democratic polity venturing to maintain order by repression and criminality is actually creating ultimate disorder because in so doing it creates a link between social order and atrocities.
We commend the Apex Court for their timely and sensitive decision to limit the weight of school bags that students are forced to carry, due to ever increasing number of books, notebooks and other material.
In big business and commercial parlance, one comes across the now familiar concept of 'Corporate Social Responsibility' (CSR) that, in real terms consists of promotional activities geared to improving the acceptability and image of an organisation.
In view of the grisly and gory attacks, allegedly state-sponsored, on the Rohingya Muslim minority of neighbouring Myanmar, it would not be out of place to take a serious look at the menacing face of the other kind of fundamentalism about which the international community has not been desirably vocal.
In a scenario where the police have not been able to adequately transform it and the political class of the country is not
For handcuffing, the nature of the accusation is not the criterion. In fact, the clear and present danger of escape or breaking out of police control is the determinant. For determining that there must be clear material record, not glib assumption, of reasons and wherever applicable judicial oversight and summary hearing and direction by the court.
