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Once I came across the souvenir published by the trainee Outsider Cadets of the Police Academy, Sardah, Rajshahi. I went through the publication carelessly as one always does. But I observed the qualification of a cadet to be a B.Sc. in chemical engineering. It seemed unusual to turn an engineer into a police sub-inspector. I went through the other pages carefully and became astonished to discover that out of 829 Outsider Cadets passed-out in 2005, 250 of them are graduates, which is the minimum qualification of a police sub-inspector. Eighty-five cadets graduated with honours in different disciplines. At the time of recruitment they were students studying in post graduate classes but could not complete their courses for their training in the Police Academy. But many of them earned their post graduate degrees in the meantime. Two-hundred and one cadets earned their post graduate degrees (after graduation without honours). The majority of the Outsider Cadets are highly qualified having graduated with honours and then earned their post graduate degrees from different universities and affiliated colleges of the National University.
Of the graduate cadets, there are B.Sc. engineers , LLBs, system analysts, BBAs.
A few cadets earned their degrees from abroad.
The Bangladesh Police possesses highly qualified human resources. The potential of this force is enormous. But the nursing of the meritorious and training for the officers is very poor. I think Bangladesh Police have all the qualities to be an efficient, honest, enduring and capable service delivery agency.
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