Illegal police practice
How long more will the government ignore the sickly, worsening law and order situation?
Every day news of grisly incidents of murder, rape, acid throwing, land and property grabbing, mugging, maiming, and eve-teasing to mention but a few reach our breakfast tables in quality newspapers. Soon it won't be safe for us to leave our homes in fear of what awaits us outside. We learned recently from Sir Frank Peters about schoolboy Aaquib Tanveer who was mugged at gunpoint in broad daylight on his way to school and his seven-times mugged school friend. The boys didn't report the crimes because they would have to pay baksheesh to the cops. The noble gentleman then asked how many more hundreds or thousands of crimes are committed that go unreported because of this illegal police practice. That's what we would all like to know.
The first duty of every police force worldwide is to gather crime information, then resolve them.
We hear soothing superficial words from the government telling us everything is under control, but how can that be if crimes are not even chronicled? It's illogical and insults our intelligence.
This government can do itself and the nation a favour by taking whatever hard measures deemed necessary to improve law and order. If this means mass police, government and bureaucratic sackings for the eventual good of Bangladesh, so be it. It's a small price to pay.
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