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Fresh look won’t mask a flawed force

THE recent decision to change the uniforms of the Bangladesh Police, Rapid Action Battalion, and Ansar reflects a misguided effort to erase the stains of past abuses. While new uniforms might provide an outward sense of change, they do little to solve the underlying problems of institutional inefficiency, corruption and public distrust. Reform that tackles...

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Sacked trainee SIs rally for reinstatement

A large group of dismissed trainee sub-inspectors of the Bangladesh Police demonstrated for the second day on Monday in front of the Bangladesh Secretariat, the country’s administrative headquarters, demanding reinstatement in their jobs...

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Eight more trainee SIs discharged from police academy

Eight more trainee sub-inspectors who had been receiving basic training at Bangladesh Police Academy in Rajshahi’s Sardah for the past fourteen months were discharged from the academy on Thursday night....

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Public trust and policing crisis

DURING the previous regime of 15 years, the people of the country faced deep-rooted grievances and deprivation, aggravated by pervasive and systematic repression. Misgovernance, rampant corruption, unchecked arbitrariness, and the abuse of power fuelled widespread anger and antagonism among the populace. Amid this...

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PSA forms ad hoc committee to streamline activities

The Bangladesh Police Service Association on Saturday formed a 35-member ad hoc committee with additional inspector general of police of the Criminal Investigation Department, Md Motiur Rahman Sheikh, as...

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Victory Day Kabaddi: Navy, Police emerge champions 

Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Police emerged as champions in the men’s and women’s categories respectively of the Victory Day Kabaddi that ended at the Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium in the city on Tuesday.

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RAB, police members among 4 arrested for mugging

Four people, including members of the Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Police, were arrested while they were allegedly attempting to flee after seizing goods from a man at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Monday night...

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Citizens want service-oriented police force

Discussants at a seminar in Dhaka on Saturday said that the Bangladesh Police needed a comprehensive reform plan to overcome the negative image the force had achieved in the past 16 years...

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Anatomy of police reform commissions

THE Bangladesh Police, as it exists today, was originally organised under the Police Act 1861. It remains a centralised force, a legacy of its colonial past. Despite population growth, industrialisation and...

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Home adviser warns police against corruption

Adviser of the interim government on home affairs lieutenant general (retired) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday urged the police officials to keep them above all corrupt practice saying none to be found in indulging would be spared...

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Police asked to join by Thursday

Home affairs adviser to the interim government retired Brigadier General M Sakhawat Hossain on Sunday asked police members to return to duty by Thursday otherwise they...

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