Police should help, not harass people
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Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) recently gave a statement about police corruption in Bangladesh. It said that people pay more money as bribe to the police than to their government. Extortion by police is a common phenomenon in Dhaka. Every day, Police take bribes from buses, trucks, pushcarts, rickshaws, hawkers and even from beggars. These kinds of corruption have been mentioned in the statement of AHRC. They have said that in lieu of giving service to the citizens, police are involved in corruption. AHRC has also said that there is not even a single place where police do not take bribe from. We, the young generation hope that our government will take strong steps against police corruption. Police should be the real friends of people. Please use the police force to help people instead of using them for political purposes.
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