Mugging on the rise

MUGGING and snatching in broad daylight in the city have registered a sharp rise. Notably, the target of most of the recent incidents has been a particular money transfer agency, bKash, whose employees have been robbed as they were on their way to banks for depositing their collected money.
From the style and timing of attacks on their prey, it appears the muggers are organized and have a strong network to keep tabs on the movement of their victims. In the recent cases of snatching at Bashabo or Turag area in the city, for example, the muggers pounced on the victims as soon as they came out from their agents' offices with the money.  And in both cases, the robbers stabbed or shot the victims before making off with the money unchallenged by any member of the law-enforcement agencies within sight.  
This is also not for the first time that robbers carried out their operations on targeted persons with such impunity. Reports of similar incidents of snatching and mugging in the city and its adjacent areas are but the regular stuff the daily newspapers.
Since matching police actions to arrest these criminals are few and far between, it is hardly surprising that the frequency of the crime has recently seen a steep rise.    
This is simply unacceptable that the police are clueless about the perpetrators of these instances of organized crime.
Why cannot the Dhaka Metropolitan police deploy patrol police to ensure security of citizens, business people in particular, in the sensitive spots of the city?  
The police must swing into action and bust the dens of organized crime.