Day: May 13, 2024

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has attained professional strengths and competence to protect law and order together with ensuring safety to the public in general through combating all sorts of crimes. Utmost emphasis has been given on mitigating various types of social offenses, including juvenile crimes, food adulteration and reckless driving, through generating mass-awareness. Talking to BSS here recently, RMP Commissioner Biplob Bijoy Talukder said they are putting in their level best efforts for maintaining peace and tranquility everywhere in the metropolis through people's participation. He said they are conducting motorbike rehearsal by police teams on different main roads and tourists and amusement spots so that the peace-loving people are sensitized against the social crimes. Students of schools and colleges are being discouraged from going outside during their academic time. Guardians are also being requested to care for their kids for their proper grooming. In adjacent and surro unding areas of educational institutions, unnecessary gatherings of youths and juveniles who are supposed to be derailed are brought under surveillance to prevent eve-teasing and to control juvenile crimes. "We have re-organized and reactivated the community policing committees coupled with infusing dynamism into the activities of bit policing to reach the police services to the peoples' doorsteps," he added. RMP has been arranging awareness meetings on traffic rules for drivers and guardians of juveniles to promote sound traffic systems in the city as road accidents bring long-lasting pains and sufferings to many families. It has set up check-posts at 36 important points to prevent road traffic accidents through controlling reckless driving of motorbikes by the unruly youths. "We have already launched the 'no helmet no fuel' programme for preventing road accidents," said the RMP chief, adding that the main thrust of their programme is to create awareness among the people. Petrol pump owners a nd employees were given instructions for not selling fuel to the motorbike owners without having helmets, he said. The commissioner said the present government has declared zero tolerance to drug-addiction and urged all quarters to come forward to protect the young generation from the grip of social crimes. "We have to build a healthy society to achieve sustainable development goals," he said, adding the movement against drug abuse will have to be turned into a social movement. RMP's Cyber crime unit has attained success together with attaining trusts and confidence of people in terms of combating crimes related to cyber crimes in the metropolis since its inception on September 17, 2020. The unit has been playing a vital role towards bringing those involved in spreading anti-state rumours and misleading information, and pictures through using Facebook, instagram, twitter and other social media to book within the shortest possible time. It has been working relentlessly in the field of unearthing clueless incidents, criminal identification and subsequently bringing them to book. Apart from this, it's sending necessary and demand-driven information to the adjacent district through proper channels. Utpol Kumar Chowdhury, Additional Deputy Police Commissioner (CTTC and LIC), told BSS that they have received 8,371 complaints related to cyber crimes and so far disposed of 7,785 of those till March 31 last meaning that disposal rate is 93 percent. Moreover, the unit has also disposed of 173 pornography and 148 cyber violence against women cases of harassment and blackmailing of women by threatening to spread their sensational videos, hacking of the facebook account, sending of Pornographic pictures and videos through fake messenger. "We are committed to ensure public security as per desire of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to build Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman," asserted RMP Commissioner Biplob Bijoy Talukder. Professor Jalal Uddin Sarder of the Department Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Rajshahi University attributed that the police efforts to ensure peace and security to the public in general is laudable. As a whole, the Rajshahi city has become a peaceful habitat. Contribution of Rajshahi City Corporation and its Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton to make the city clean, green and habitable is also significant, he added. Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha