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Jan 14, 2025 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
Demanding ransom and openly hacking people for extortion, compounded with the scare of snatching, have increased fear of people. In recent times, businessmen in different areas have received threats. Police find involvement of professional criminals in these incidents. On Friday night, some 8-10 miscreants hacked businessman Ehteshamul Haque with machetes in front of Multiplan Center in Elephant Road in Dhaka. Law enforcers found the connection of ‘Emon Group’ with the incident.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
One of the police databases affected by the recent leaks is the Crime Data Management System (CDMS), which holds at least 50 types of information, covering every aspect of a case from start to finish. Case investigation officers, who are outside the CDMS control branch of the police headquarters, can access this data using specific IDs and passwords. Each ID provides details about the cases handled by the investigation officer.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mahmudul Hasan
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
100 days of interim govt Though the interim government has completed its 100 days since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government in the face of the student-people movement, the law and order agencies could not yet regroup themselves completely. The police have made visible progress from non-existence in the three months, but people’s trust in them is yet to return. At the same time, people’s expectations from the force have increased.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
However, Prothom Alo recently received a report of the police Special Branch (SB) on the incidents of crossfires from 2015 to 2021. An analysis of this report reveals a total of 1,293 people were killed in the seven years. There was no district in the country where no such incident of extrajudicial killing was reported. Many of the victims were political leaders and activists.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
At one point, a commission member raised the issue of the superior selection board (SSB), which oversees promotions to the ranks of deputy inspector general (DIG) of police and above. The police officers said the SSB does not evaluate officers properly, as it does not include the IGP. They also mentioned irregularities and illegal transactions in promotions, appointments, and transfers during the previous government.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
Police have arrested over 7,000 people across the country in the last one week. Those arrested include accused in the cases filed over student-people uprising as well as accused in narcotics, murder, snatching and other crimes. This information was gathered from the sources of police headquarters. Law enforcement agencies faced criticism as important and influential persons belonging to the Awami League government fled the country after the last government was ousted in a student-mass uprising.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
Interview: Baharul Alam Baharul Alam has been the head of the police's Special Branch (SB) and has also served at the police headquarters. From 2009 to 2013 he served as the police liaison officer of the peacekeeping department of the United Nations headquarters. He was senior police advisor of the UN peacekeeping mission at Afghanistan in 2015. Earlier he served in Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo and Sierra Leone. After being twice deprived of promotions, he retired from service in 2020.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
Around 120,000 were recruited in Bangladesh Police in 15 years of Awami League. The allocation for police increased by 433 per cent in this period. Yet, there was no effective initiative to make the police a professional force. Rather, police were used to suppress the political opponents of the ruling party in the last one and a half decades. The organisational structure of police has collapsed due to Awami League’s excessive dependence on it.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
en.prothomalo.com | Mahmudul Hasan
A total of 187 members of the police at various levels have not yet joined their offices after the fall of the Awami League government, according to police headquarters. Apart from them, many other police members are still absent from work on various grounds. Senior police officials, who abused power and created various controversies from time to time during the immediate past Awami League government, are not coming to the public now.
