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We need inclusive and gender-responsive community policing

On June 27, 2024, a discussion titled "Towards Gender Equality: Gender-Responsive Community Policing in Bangladesh" was organised jointly by UN Women and The Daily Star at The Daily Star Centre. Academicians, top female police officers, legal specialists, and gender activists participated in the event. Below is a summary of the key points from the discussion.

Opinion / The morale issues of Bangladesh Police

There is no denying that for a long time, the police have been used as a tool of repression in the subcontinent

Tables turn, but police stick to old tricks

That the former law minister Anisul Haque and Hasina’s private investment adviser Salman F Rahman had instigated armed goons to kill a 24-year-old stall employee in the New Market area, is ludicrous as it is laughable..While Salman is widely regarded as a mastermind for financial crimes, A

'We shoot one dead ... but the rest don't budge'

Chilling video surfaces of police talking to ex-home minister about subduing the protesters

Police to get new uniform, logo; committee formed

Change demanded by police due to mistrust of the force for recent acts

Sacked cops gather at Secretariat demanding jobs back

They are chanting slogans against former IGPs, DB Harun

Traffic police return to Dhaka streets after 6 days

They are working in tandem with students, who have been performing the duties of traffic police since Sheikh Hasina's resignation

Cops call off strike, set to join work today

Police members have called off their strike and are to report to their stations today.

Police can’t be used as killers, henchmen anymore: Sakhawat

Home Affairs Adviser Brigadier General (Retired) M Sakhawat Hussain today said members of the police force cannot be used as killers or henchmen anymore

January 4, 2016

Bid to occupy BNP office & cops' role

The BNP deserves better than the way it was treated by police on Saturday when a group of people under the banner of a so-called "real BNP" marched towards the opposition party's central office with an ulterior motive to occupy it.

January 2, 2016

JMB man held in Chapainawabganj

Police have arrested an active member of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Nachol upazila in Chapainawabganj today.

January 2, 2016

Beheaded body of outlaw found in Kushtia

Police today has recovered the split body and head of a local leader of an outlawed radical organisation from Kushtia’s Sadar upazila.

December 31, 2015

Police form special counter-terror unit

A 600-men police unit specialising in technology has been formed under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police to enhance police capability in combating militancy and terrorism.

December 31, 2015

Police witnessed but didn't act

Police played the role of silent spectators at many voting centres when supporters of Awami League mayor candidates prevented voters from entering polling centres, snatched ballot papers and stuffed those in ballot boxes.

December 25, 2015

15-hour raid on 'JMB den'

In a 15-hour crackdown in a militant den on the capital's Mirpur, detectives yesterday seized 16 improvised grenades, other ingredients, including power gel enough to make over 200 bombs and grenades, and a suicide vest, police said. Six youths, aged between 20 and 30, were said to be arrested during the raid at two apartments on the top floor of a six-storey building in Shah Ali area. Two of them are key operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and the four others are suspected militants, detectives said, but did not disclose their identities.

December 19, 2015