IGP to Visit Germany Determining Color of Bed Sheets

One lakh bed sheets with double pillow covers are being brought from Germany for members of the police force. Police Chief Dr Benazir Ahmed has been allowed to visit Germany to check the quality of the products being supplied by a local contractor.

However, such products are made in Bangladesh and are now being exported to various Asian countries, including the United States, Australia and Europe. Germany also has a large market for these products.

IGP Dr Benazir Ahmed is scheduled to visit Germany this month to verify the acceptability and quality of the equipment from which the goods will be imported. He is accompanied by Mohammad Firoz Uddin Khalifa, Deputy Secretary, Public Security Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, and Mohammad Masud Alam, SP and IGP Staff Officer, Police Headquarters. They will check the quality before the cover shipment of the sheets and pillows.

They are scheduled to stay in Germany for a total of nine days the letter states that they will leave at a convenient time within the month of February.

The Foreign Secretary has been given a copy of the letter to issue a note verbal (official letter from one country to another). Besides, letters have been sent to seven more government agencies for information and assistance According to the letter, the cost of the three-person visit to Germany, including the police chief, will be borne by the contractor.

It is learned that on October 8, a tender was called from the police headquarters for the supply of double covers for the bedsheets and pillows. The tender was called for the supply of 21 items including blankets, applets, and hand gloves, bed sheets with double pillow covers, bed sheets with single pillow covers, body bags and cotton vests. Among them, bed sheet with the double cover of a pillow is an item.

The tender was also published on the government's e-Procure website on October 7 Additional DIG of the police headquarters to call for tenders and accept the goods. Ataul Kibria's name has been mentioned and by April 28, they have been asked to provide bed sheets with double pillow covers.

Haider Ali Khan, DIG (Media and Planning) at the police headquarters, said, "I have nothing to do with it."

However, one of the three IGPs nominated for the visit, Mohammad Firoz Uddin Khalifa, deputy secretary of the Home Ministry's public security department, said to the media: "I don't know much about going to Germany. I have no idea what my job is there. I have received a letter so far. I have not yet applied for a visa I can't say whether I will go or not. "

An official at the police headquarters, who did not want to be named, claimed, "The problem with bedsheets in the Bangladeshi market is that the color is not right. The police sheets and pillow covers have a special color that's why it's being brought from Germany. "