Home adviser lieutenant general Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (retired) on Sunday said that retired members of various law enforcement agencies would be appointed in controlling traffic in the capital.
鈥楥urrently, 700 students are working in traffic control in Dhaka metropolitan areas. Similarly, formation of a community policing, comprising retired police, army, air force, navy, BGB, and Ansar members who have been working in traffic control, is under active consideration.聽 Initially, about 500 people may be appointed for this work. An age limit will also be set to this end,鈥� he said.
The adviser was speaking to journalists after the 4th meeting of the advisory council committee on law and order at the conference room of home ministry at secretariat in the afternoon.
Replying to questions about harassment through fake and false cases, Jahangir said that they were taking necessary legal measures to prevent those cases.
鈥榃e are forming a committee so that those, who have been accused in such false cases, do not suffer any kind of harassment,鈥� the adviser continued.
鈥榃e have made a proposal for the committee, but it has not yet been finalised,鈥� he said.
Jahangir said that the district-level committee would have the members on behalf of the deputy commissioner, superintendent of police and聽聽聽 district legal aid committee.
Along with the police, he said that the committee would determine who was actually guilty and make sure that none was harassed.
The meeting discussed various issues, especially improvement of the law and order situation across the country alongside maintaining law and order on the occasion of Bishwa Ijtema and celebration of the Victory Day.
Chaired by the home adviser, the meeting was attended by members of the law and order advisory council committee.
