Police boxes erected on city streets illegally
Ashraful tells parliament
Dhaka Metropolitan Police has illegally set up a large number of police boxes on footpaths and road dividers in the city, causing troubles to pedestrians, said LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday.
In a reply to lawmakers' queries in the parliament, he said the police boxes have been built without approval of Dhaka City Corporation.
The DCC cannot allow construction of such police boxes on footpaths and road dividers as it is against traffic rules, Ashraful added.
He said, ''Letters were sent to the home ministry and police commissioner in September and November last year respectively for removal of the illegal structures.''
Besides, DCC and police authorities held a meeting and decided to remove the unauthorised police boxes carrying different advertisements, said the minister.
''But they did not pay heed to the decision. Even, police obstructed the city corporation's move to remove the illegal structures.''
DMP Commissioner AKM Shahidul Hoque told The Daily Star that some of the police boxes were constructed with written permission of the concerned authority while the rest with verbal permission.
Shahidul said they already sought DCC's written permission and a committee has also been formed with DMP deputy commissioner (traffic east) in this regard.
The DCC earlier asked DMP to remove the police boxes on city streets, which DMP refused to entertain.
About removal of overhead TV-Internet cables from the electric polls, the LGRD minister said Dhaka Power Distribution Company and Dhaka Electricity Supply Company will remove the cables with support from DCC by November.
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