Desk report
Publish: 11 Sep 2019, 01:46 pm
PM to police: Maintain peace for development
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has
hoped the police will continue their sincere efforts to maintain peace and
discipline in the country, which is essential for economic development.
"For economic development, maintaining peace and
discipline is very essential, and this responsibility very naturally goes to
the police force. I hope the police will discharge their duties with utmost
sincerity as they are doing now," she said.
The prime minister said this while inaugurating the
operation of Community Bank Bangladesh Limited approved under Bangladesh
Police Kalyan Trust. She opened it through a videoconference from her official
residence Ganabhaban on Wednesday.
With the sincere efforts of the police, Sheikh Hasina
said, the government will be able to take the country forward where the next
generation will have a beautiful and better life.
She asked the police to gain the confidence and trust of
people. "Every police station should be a beautiful and spectacular place.
Those will be established as the place of trust and confidence of people."
Terming narcotics as a social menace, Sheikh Hasina asked
the police to intensify the drive in the coming days to eliminate this menace
from society.
"The drive will continue. Narcotics destroy family
and society. The son kills his mother, his father, and brother kills brother
for narcotics. To prevent such incidents, the drive against this has to be
intensified. The nature of crime is changing as the world is evolving."
The prime minister said the government has taken steps to
train the police to cope with the changing world. Terrorism and militancy are
not exclusive to Bangladesh; rather, they are problems the whole world faces,
she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the role of the police and other law
enforcement agencies are commendable to curb terrorism and militancy in the
country, as they laid down their lives.
To train the police properly, the government has formed
Anti-Terrorism Unit and Cyber Police Center, she said, adding: "They are
showing their skills in the area, too."
Recalling the horrible days in 2013, 2014 and 2015 when
the BNP-Jamaat clique had unleashed a reign of terror in the name of the movement,
she said some 26-27 police personnel sacrificed their lives at that time.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, Home Minister
Asaduzzaman Kamal, Secretary (Public Security Division) of Ministry of Home
Affairs Mostafa Kamal Uddin and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr. Mohammad
Javed Patwary also spoke at the program.
Later, the prime minister talked to some police personnel
in Rajarbagh Police Auditorium and Community Bank Bangladesh Limited officials
at its Corporate Office in Gulshan through the videoconference.--UNB
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