The Bangladesh Police Service Association in a statement on Friday termed聽 recent media reports against its retired and serving officials as 鈥榩artial, ill motivated, sweeping and exaggerated鈥� while the ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader alleged that the police were facing wholesale attack.
The association also requested the media to be more cautious while publishing reports on the police.
The police organisation stressed the need for following professional ethics in this regard.
The BPSA statement was jointly signed by its president, Special Branch chief and additional inspector general Md Monirul Islam and general secretary and also superintendent of police in Narayanganj Golam Mostofa Rashel.
The statement and AL general secretary鈥檚 remarks came amid legal action against allegations of accumulating huge illegal wealth by former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed and his family based on media reports.
Most recently, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has also made headlines over allegations of amassing illegal wealth.
Addressing a rally marking the AL鈥檚 75th founding anniversary in front of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in the city, Quader said that wholesale corruption allegations were made against the AL.
鈥楩akhruls [Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir] were spreading rumours. They are making wholesale allegations against the police. They have intention against the Army. It should be thought whether making people corrupt on a wholesale basis is any conspiracy to oust Awami League,鈥� said Quader.
Speaking about the media reports on corruption, Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, alleged that they termed the AL as a corrupt political party by spreading rumour and hatching conspiracy.
鈥楽ome media outlets are also running this propaganda,鈥� he added.
The BPSA statement said that the police force had handled the anti-liberation communal forces鈥� sabotage, including vandalism, arson and bombing successfully, and this is why the police were facing negative criticism.
鈥楴o sources of information were mentioned in most cases in those published media reports. Such baseless reports without any attribution will demoralise professional members of the Bangladesh police and that could tarnish the image of Bangladesh police,鈥� said the statement.聽聽
In such circumstances, the association on Thursday held a meeting at the police headquarters鈥� auditorium where some police officials also demanded legal action for publishing reports without maintaining professional ethics.
The statement claimed the Bangladesh police always follow a 鈥榸ero-tolerance鈥� policy.
鈥楶olice do not expect unethical journalism from mass media outlets. But, some media mysteriously tried to bring police to justice by creating controversy about the police force,鈥� the statement said, requesting the media outlets not to publish those fabricated reports for the sake of public security and public order.
The Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating allegations of accumulating huge illegal wealth of the former IGP Benazir and his family based on media reports.
Benazir and the family reportedly left the country on May 4 amid allegations of acquiring illegal wealth and money laundering.
On December 10, 2021, the United States declared then IGP Benazir ineligible for entry to the country for 鈥榞ross violations of human rights鈥� while serving as the RAB director general.
According to media reports, information about multiple flats, plots, houses, and land owned by former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia and his family in the capital has been found.