Police headquarters has given instruction to field level police officers to bring criminals under the law, through increased supervision in case investigation.
The instruction was given from the monthly crime review meeting held at the police headquarters on Thursday.
Additional IGP (Crime and Operations) Md. Atiqul Islam, who presided over the meeting, gave the instruction.
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All metropolitan police commissioners, tange DIGs and district superintendents of police (SPs) participated virtually in the meeting. DIG (Crime Management) YM Belalur Rahman, DIG (Operations) Md Haider Ali Khan and related officers were present at the police headquarters.
AIG (Crime Analysis) Sunanda Roy presented statistics regarding the overall crime situation of the country in the month of September 2022 such as robbery, murder, rape, gender violence, recovery of drugs and weapons, unnatural deaths etc.
A review of the statistics of various cases presented in the meeting shows that in the month of September, there has been a decrease in the total number of registered cases, rape cases, women and children abuse cases compared to the previous month of August 2022.
Source: United News of Bangladesh