The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has cautioned its officials at all levels of the organisation against probable attacks on their establishments, including at police stations, during the ongoing violence and anti-government protests.
The office order signed by the DMP commissioner, Md Asaduzzaman Mia, on February 14 and sent to all police stations, stated that there are intelligence reports that the police stations, police boxes and check points might come under attack of miscreants.
The commissioner, who leads 26,661 personnel, also asked his officials and staff to avoid ‘absenteeism’ and to inform senior officials about any act of sabotage immediately after any incident takes place.
Talking to New Age, different officers-in-charge of police stations had different takes on the significance of the office order.
The Pallabi police station officer-in-charge Syed Ziauzzaman said ‘it’s a departmental matter.’
He, however, said security at the police station compound and other nearby establishments has already been beefed up.
The Bangshal police station officer-in-charge, Abdul Kuddus Fakir, also said ‘it is not a matter that I can share with you.’
The Mirpur police station, where a number of anti-government protesters were killed in so-called gunfights with police, has already installed bunkers with police on round-the-clock duty, with weapons, at the main entrance of the road-side police establishment in the capital.
Additional check posts have also been set up in front of the police station.
Syed Shahid Alam, the officer-in-charge of Gendariya police station, however, said that on receiving the order from the police commissioner, ‘we are trying to mobilise people in the community to build up resistance.’
Another official at Gendaria police station told New Age that ‘the police already distributed red sticks among people loyal to the government and had them take up positions at different locations to face the miscreants.’
Meanwhile, police started carrying fire extinguishers inside their vehicles.
‘One of our vehicles came under arson attack, but we were able to immediately douse it with our own fire-fighting equipment,’ a field level official at Gendaria told New Age.
At least one police constable died from a hand-made bomb attack while many others sustained injuries in Dhaka in the ongoing anti government protest enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party led 20-party alliance since January 5.
The office order signed by the DMP commissioner, Md Asaduzzaman Mia, on February 14 and sent to all police stations, stated that there are intelligence reports that the police stations, police boxes and check points might come under attack of miscreants.
The commissioner, who leads 26,661 personnel, also asked his officials and staff to avoid ‘absenteeism’ and to inform senior officials about any act of sabotage immediately after any incident takes place.
Talking to New Age, different officers-in-charge of police stations had different takes on the significance of the office order.
The Pallabi police station officer-in-charge Syed Ziauzzaman said ‘it’s a departmental matter.’
He, however, said security at the police station compound and other nearby establishments has already been beefed up.
The Bangshal police station officer-in-charge, Abdul Kuddus Fakir, also said ‘it is not a matter that I can share with you.’
The Mirpur police station, where a number of anti-government protesters were killed in so-called gunfights with police, has already installed bunkers with police on round-the-clock duty, with weapons, at the main entrance of the road-side police establishment in the capital.
Additional check posts have also been set up in front of the police station.
Syed Shahid Alam, the officer-in-charge of Gendariya police station, however, said that on receiving the order from the police commissioner, ‘we are trying to mobilise people in the community to build up resistance.’
Another official at Gendaria police station told New Age that ‘the police already distributed red sticks among people loyal to the government and had them take up positions at different locations to face the miscreants.’
Meanwhile, police started carrying fire extinguishers inside their vehicles.
‘One of our vehicles came under arson attack, but we were able to immediately douse it with our own fire-fighting equipment,’ a field level official at Gendaria told New Age.
At least one police constable died from a hand-made bomb attack while many others sustained injuries in Dhaka in the ongoing anti government protest enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party led 20-party alliance since January 5.
Source: New Age
