DHAKA, Sept 16, 2018 (BSS) -Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said peace and stability is very crucial for country’s development while keeping law and order under control is the most important prerequisite for the advancement.
She said being imbued with a very caring attitude Bangladesh Police force is playing its due role with honesty and dedication to establish peace in the society.
The prime minister said this while inaugurating the newly constituted Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RPMP) and Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP)units.
Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the police units from her official residence Gonobhaban through a videoconferencing with the government officials and people of the two metropolitan cities at Rangpur Police Lines and Gazipur Police Lines.
Secretary of the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Mostafa Kamal Uddin and Inspector General of Police Jabed Patwari also spoke on the occasion, conducted by Principal Secretary Nojibur Rahman.
The prime minister also talked to the officials and local people through the videoconferencing.
The prime minister said about 27 members of the police made supreme sacrifices in the fight against militancy in the country. The present government has taken steps for modernization of the police force considering its growing role in maintaining law and order, she said.
Sheikh Hasina thanked police force and other law enforcement agencies for their dedicated efforts to eliminate the curse of militancy and terrorism from the country.
Militancy and terrorism are a common global phenomenon and many developed countries are being riddled by the menaces. But Bangladesh, even being a small country, has showed immense success in curbing militancy and terrorism thanks to timely actions of the police force, she said.
She said the present government has declared Rangpur as a separate division to ensure the people getting the government services while Gazipur, country’s one of the industrial cities, has been declared as a metropolitan city.
The metropolitan police units were constituted to deliver government services quickly to the people, she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the police force plays the key and hard role in maintaining law and order in the society. They have no specified working hours as they need to response to the call of people at anytime in their need.
Taking their hard labour into consideration, the prime minister said the Awami League government after coming to power in 1996 had introduced ration for all members of the police force which was only 20 percent at that time.
At that time the number of manpower was very inadequate than requirement while they have very poor health and living facilities. So the government has constructed a modern hospital at Rajarbag Police Line and multi-storey residential buildings for them, she said.