The police reform debate seems to be attracting a wider and more serious audience.
Over 80,000 members of the police force, which comprises around 2 lakh personnel, were recruited over the past 15 years based on their political affiliations, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali yesterday.
Militarisation of police force cannot be accepted under any pretext
But without political reforms, any change risks being superficial
Bangladesh Police Academy in Sardah, Rajshahi, yesterday discharged 58 more trainee sub-inspectors (SIs) from the 40th outside cadet batch on the grounds of “breaching discipline”.
60 officials of BFIU, Bangladesh Police, NBR, ACC, BSEC and the Department of Narcotics Control will receive the training
The stage was all set. The Bangladesh Police Academy at Sardah was decked up for the year’s highlight. Another batch of assistant superintendents was about to pass out. Many of the guests and dignitaries had already arrived in Rajshahi the evening before. They would watch 62 ASPs — all BCS recruits — march in their passing-out parade.
A total of 252 trainee sub-inspectors (SIs) of the 40th Outside Cadet batch have been dismissed just a month before graduating from the Sarda Police Academy in Rajshahi.
Independent oversight body is needed to investigate such crimes
Suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman has skipped interrogation by the Anti-Corruption Commission over bribery allegation.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and police are making contradictory claims over the videographer who was killed in a “gunfight” with BGB men in Cumilla on early Friday.
A man accused of sexually assaulting his neighbour stabbed a police inspector in Pirojpur yesterday.
Police Headquarters direct all units of Bangladesh Police to take cautionary measures following the bomb blast at Dhaka’s Malibagh intersection.
The mortal remains of Bangladesh Police’s top woman officer Rowshan Ara Begum, killed in a road crash in Congo last Sunday, are brought back home.
Police additional IGP Rowshan Ara Begum has been killed in road crash in Congo, police headquarter says.
The body of a police official, who went missing after a clash with fishermen in the Meghna River on Friday, has been found in Barishal.
Eight people have been given life term imprisonment in a case filed for killing three policemen in Bera upazila of Pabna on July 20, 2010.
The High Court observe that some police officials set up courts at night at the places they choose for conducting arbitration with incidents.
Police claim to have arrested four members of a fraud gang from Dhaka for allegedly swindling “hundreds of crores of Taka” from nearly 1000 people in the name of providing job in Qatar.
