The directive threatened them with departmental action if unprofessional or impolite behaviour to a colleague was proved in an investigation following an untoward incident.
The headquarters letter of directives also asked police and Rab to try and avoid untoward situations and solve insignificant misunderstandings through discussions or through their respective authorities.
“On duty law enforcement agencies [RAB and police] will show due respect and behave in a professional way with each other after ensuring their identity,” the directives said.
They would abide by the legal directives of the highest on duty or present official at the spot, it said.
In no circumstances a law enforcement agency personnel would take law into their own hands and defame or physically assault or use objectionable language against the personnel of the other agency, it went on.
It said while discharging duty, they must all be in their respective uniforms.
The unit in charge would arrange probe into an untoward incident that happens in a unit, it said.
Whatever be the situation, no comment could be made ridiculing another force, it added.
The letter containing the directives suggested improving interactions between the members of police and Rab. “The members of police and Rab will treat each other as colleagues instead of rivals and they will behave in a professional way … ,” the directives read.
Meanwhile, Rab DG Benazir yesterday said he did not want to get into any “trap” by commenting on police claims that dead militant suspect Sarwar Jahan alias Abdur Rahman was a third-tier leader of “Neo-JMB”.
Benazir at a press briefing on October 21 claimed that Sarwar was in fact Shaykh Abu Ibrahim Al-Hanif, the chief of “Neo JMB”.
Five days later, Monirul Islam, chief of DMP’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit contradicted his claim. “We have information that Abdur Rahman’s [Sarwar] position was below the deputies of militant suspect Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury,” Monirul said.
“I do not want to step into this trap. He [Monirul] is my junior officer, a beloved officer. I don’t want to counter whatever he did,” he told a TV channel after meeting the home minister yesterday.
He said at the meeting he had talked about the identity of the militant suspect based on facts and evidence.
The Daily Star could not reach the Rab DG for comments.
Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque at the quarterly crime conference at the police headquarters yesterday said police and Rab are members of a single family and their vision is to maintain law and order.
Meeting sources said the IGP warned that if anyone behaved indecently towards the members of other forces, the person would face punitive actions, the IGP said.
The Rab chief, who attended the meeting, said people would lose confidence in law enforcement agencies due to the claims and counter-claims by Rab and police, said an official who was in the meeting.
Source: The Daily Star
