CMP awards samaritan cop

Chittagong Metropolitan Police yesterday awarded an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Tk 10,000 for showing human compassion for a mother and her newborn.

On September 4, a mentally challenged woman delivered a baby on the road before Janata Bank in the port city's Agrabad about 10:00am. Curious people crowded in the area but no one came forward to help them. Later, ASI Paltu Barua of CMP, who was on duty on the road, took them to Agrabad Ma O Shishu Hospital by a rickshaw.

The ASI also took the guardianship of the mother and the baby when the hospital authorities were refusing to admit them without any guardian.

After the awarding programme in the CMP conference room, CMP Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mandol at a conference said security will be beefed up ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. CCC cameras will be installed in two big cattle markets -- Sagorika and Bibirhat -- and police camps would also be set up in all 10 cattle markets in the city.

Additional 1,000 police members will be deployed at important intersections on Friday.