City Desk :
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md. Mainul Islam said here on Saturday that the police should be developed as a force of the people being inspired with the spirit of July Revolution.
“We have to develop police as the force of the people taking lesson from the July Revolution,” he said while speaking as the chief guest at the monthly (October) review meeting of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) at Bangladesh Police Auditorium, Rajarbagh here, reports BSS.
At the outset of the meeting, the police chief prayed for the peace of the departed souls of all the martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the student-people uprising and expressed deep condolences to their families.
He also remembered the injured ones recalled the contribution of police members, who sacrificed their lives in maintaining law and order. Describing police as an important institution of the state, he said that providing services to the people is the main objective of police. “So, the police should be built as a force as desired by the people,” he said adding that the police should work as a team to contain crimes.
In this connection, he put emphasis on identifying crime hotspots to maintain law and order. “The citizen committees there should be strengthened and necessary measures should be taken to prevent crime in coordination with them,” he said adding “if any crime occurs, it cannot be hidden”.
Sounding a note of caution, he said criminals; whoever they are should not be spared…they must be arrested. The police chief asked all concerned to be more careful so that innocent people are not harassed by any means.
Stressing on intelligence-based policing, the IGP said that information should be collected in advance regarding theft, robbery, juvenile gangs and other organized crimes and taking measurers to prevent those.
Mentioning that the police station is the center of police services, he said, “People who come to the police stations for service should be treated well. The image of the police should be brightened by providing proper service through good behavior.”