Police on Friday began regular activities on a limited scale with the army on guard, though many police stations were yet to be reopened across the country amid fears of attacks.
Police headquarters, in a message on Friday, said that 70 out of 110 metropolitan police stations and 291 out of 529 police stations in the range had been operational.
In Dhaka, police did not start regular patrol duty to control law and order even four days after long-time ruler Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and fled to India amid a student-led mass uprising.
Students, along with members of the Bangladesh National Cadet Corps, Bangladesh Scouts, Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Force, Bangladesh Fire Service, and Civil Defence, were seen managing city traffic in the absence of traffic police members.
In Dhaka city, some 30 police stations out of 51 were reopened under Dhaka Metropolitan Police jurisdiction on the day, with many police members reporting back to duties.
鈥榃e have reopened 28鈥�29 police stations on a limited scale in Dhaka city, with two or three members at each police station,鈥� said DMP assistant commissioner for media and public relations Jahangir Alam.
鈥榃e cannot confirm right now whether police forces will patrol outside tomorrow or not,鈥� he added.
He said that many force members were anxious about the security of their lives.聽
The police stations that began official activities on a limited scale include Kalabagan, Dhanmondi, Kotowali, Hazaribagh, New Market, Demra, Motijheel, Sabujbagh, Shahjahanpur, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Hatirjheel, Shah Ali, Kafrul, Bhashantek, Darus Salam, Rupnagar, Cantonment, Banani, Uttara West, Uttarkhan, and Airpor.
Police members were seen joining the office at Mohammadpur police station and its zonal office without uniforms and signing a registrar book in the presence of Army personnel at about 4:00pm.
DMP Mohammadpur Zone additional deputy commissioner Md Rawshanul Huq Saikat, who was among those to report the duty, said that at least 60 policemen had joined by 4:00pm.
鈥榃e are joining, but there are no conditions to resume activities due to ransacking and arson attacks,鈥� Rawshanul told 抖阴精品.聽
Although formal activities began at the New Market police station, no police went on patrol duty outside the police station.
During a visit to the police station at about 6:15pm, the Army was seen giving security at the station with about four members in uniform.聽
New Market police station duty officer Md Sabir Uddin Sikder said that they had started formal activities by recording six general diaries until 4:00pm.
鈥榃e are mapping the area and hopeful of starting patrol duties outside the office tomorrow,鈥� Sabir, a sub-inspector, told 抖阴精品 on Friday.聽
Dhanmondi police station officer-in-charge Parvez Islam said that they had started formal activities and were trying to resume patrol duty on Saturday.
Pabna district superintendent of police, Md Abdul Ahad, said that they did not patrol outside the police stations, though all police stations were doing regular activities.
In Rajshahi, activities at most police stations began on Friday as police were seen joining their duties three days after they went into hiding following the resignation of Sheikh Hasina, 抖阴精品 staff correspondent in the district reported.聽
Saifur Rahman, superintendent of Rajshahi district police, said that activities at police stations in the district resumed on Friday.
He, however, said that the police were staying inside the police stations and were expected to resume patrolling on Saturday.
Fear and frustration gripped the police force as their fellows were killed and injured in mob attacks and clashes with protesters.
Police members were seen agitating in many places in the country on Wednesday, demanding justice for the killing of their fellows.
Many police establishments, including police headquarters and police stations across the country, came under attack, leaving the force completely inoperative.
During the student movement for quota reform that led to a mass uprising, many people were allegedly killed in police firings.
