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In all, the findings from the monitoring efforts can be summarized in
the form of a table as follows:
Key Areas Motijheel Thana Mohammadpur Thana Fatullah Thana Tejgaon Thana
Police behaviour Police behaved roughly with Generally harsh and rude Arrestees were behaved with Police were rude towards the
towards arrestees the arrested persons and with behaviour towards the arrested roughly and money was also arrested persons, sometimes
their relatives as well. persons
demanded from persons in remand. verbally abusing them.
On some occasions, the Duty
officer was not found in his
room.
Behavior of the police towards
victims was fairly good. They
talked to them with due respect and
no one had to wait for more than
half an hour. They were attentively
heard and their complaints were
entertained attentively. But money
was demanded indirectly for their
service.
Their statements were not heard
attentively and the police lacked
understanding and sympathy,
making the complainants/
victims wary.
Complainants/victims were
behaved rudely to and
constables were putting
pressure on them for money.
Police attitude
towards
complainants/
victims
Police officials didn t pay
attention to the victims and
behaved rudely towards them.
It was found that for lodging
each GD police officials were
taking Tk. 50/100.
Complainants/victims had to wait
for more than one hour to be
heard.
Complainants/victims had to wait
for more than one hours for filing
cases.
It was observed that the longest
time one had to wait to file a
complaint was approximately
The longest time one had to
wait to file a complaint was
half an hour.
Waiting time to
file a
Complaint/GD
Report 2005
Custody was found to be dirty
and over crowded.
There are two custody rooms for
male arrestees, but none for the
females. Since the number of
female arrestees is few, they were
seen to be kept in the corridor
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Arrested persons had to procure
food from out side or it was
brought to them by their relatives.
one and a half hours.
Not very clean. Conditions were
over crowded.
Custody was not very clean
and the conditions cramp.
Condition of the
lock-up/custody
room
Food was not provided to the
arrestees .arrestees were
procuring food from outside
The fact finders were told that
meals were given once a day.
However, it was observed that
this too was missing on some
days. Arrestees had to procure
food or depend on their families.
It was known that food was
provided to the persons under
remand thrice a day but to
others it was irregular.
Availability of
food
Water supply irregular and
arrestees had to buy water from
outside.
Adequate water supply. Available
to arrestees.
No ready water supply for those
in custody. Arrestees had to
procure water from outside.
Water supply adequate and
available to the arrestees.
Availability of
water
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