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Police Reform Programme (Phase-II) Asia Region Women Police Conference begins Mar 7 United News of Bangladesh, Dhaka The two-day 1st Asia Region Women Police Conference-2012 will begin at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in Dhaka on March 7. The home minister, Sahara Khatun, will inaugurate the conference. Jointly organised by the Bangladesh Police and the Police Reform Programme Bangladesh, the conference will be participated in by 47 women police from 11 member states under Region-15 including Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. The president of Bangladesh Police Women Network and additional DIG of CID, Rawsan Ara, disclosed it at a press briefing held at Media Centre of DMP headquarters in the city on Sunday. She said 25 directors of the International Association of Women Police Board were expected to attend the conference. The IAWP is divided into 18 regions comprising 55 countries as its members. Bangladesh is a member of Region-15. The Dhaka Declaration will be announced at the concluding ceremony on March 8. The declaration will be made on the basis of panel discussion, training session and view exchange session, which will be organised during the conference, Rawsan said. Monday, March 5, 2012 Web link: http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2012-03-05&nid=2922 Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Metropolitan Law and order has improved in 2 yrs Speakers at a function yesterday said the Police Reform Programme (PRP) is supporting the transition of Bangladesh Police from a colonial style force to a democratic one. PRP, in collaboration with Bangladesh Police, organised the function at a hotel in the capital to present the Mid-term Review findings of PRP phase-2. Additional Inspector General of Police Md Mokhlesur Rahman, also national project director of PRP, said majority of the people, who took part in a survey conducted by PRP last year, have said that the country's law and order situation has improved over the last two years. The respondents in the survey also said to have witnessed a change in the behaviour of the police, he said. "I believe that these are the signs that indicate that police performance is slowly improving and that the public are beginning to see that as well,” he said. “One of the factors that helped the police achieve this success has been the work conducted by the PRP,” he added. PRP is a long-term comprehensive capacity building initiative to create a secure environment for the people based on respect for law and human rights and equitable access to justice. The programme puts specific focus on the poor and the disadvantaged, and women and children. Home Ministry Senior Secretary CQK Mustak Ahmed, UKaid Senior Programme Manager for Governance Daniel Davis and UNDP Bangladesh Country Director Stefan Priesner, among others, addressed the function. Web link: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=229800 Author: Staff correspondent 56 Annual Report 2012
Police Reform Programme (Phase-II) Date: 11-04-2012 PRP needs updating existing old legislative framework The existing old legislative framework of the country if not updated, will influence planned results, outcomes and impacts of Police Reform Programme (PRP) Phase-11, the preliminary findings of Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the project revealed. Officials of the PRP project that commenced in October 2009, however, believe that significant progress can be made within the existing legislative framework, which has already been evidenced. International consultant of the project Dr Rowan Barnsley in a PowerPoint presentation at a city hotel Tuesday said delay in reviewing the overall legal framework including the 1861 Police Act, the Police Regulation of Bengal and the Evidence Act are major impediments to shifting the force away from its colonial stricture. He said police reform is a major element in the overall development strategy of Bangladesh as safety and security are among the key indicators required for sustainable poverty elimination and development. "Ultimately, these changes will only come about if the reform process is accompanied by strong political will and leadership that is required," he said, adding that reform must recognise social and political realities. Mr Barnslay said there are significant achievements in gender initiatives for women police and women as victims. "Human rights sensitization has not progressed at the same rate. That is something, we need to work at," he added. The main objective of the reform of the $ 29 million project is to develop a safer and more secure environment based on respect for human rights and equitable access to justice through policing which is more responsive to the needs of poor and vulnerable people. Of the total fund, UKAID contributes $ 16.3 million, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) $ 8.0 million and unfunded budget is $ 4.7 million. National project director and additional inspector general of police Mokhlesur Rahman said the project has started demonstrating a number of significant and measurable successes, most importantly in the area of greater police professionalism. Citing the PRP survey conducted last year, he said more than 80 per cent of respondents have said that the law and order situation has improved over the last two years, despite what people might read in the press. According to a survey published in 2011 by the National Human Rights Commission, nearly 34 per cent of the surveyed people polled believed that the police service had improved. "These are the positive signs that slowly improved police performance and the public are beginning to see this as well," the project director said, informing that PRP is divided into six separate components and they are trying to demonstrate success across all of these components. The components are Organisational and Legislative Change, Human Resource Management and Training, Investigations Operations and Prosecutions, Crime Prevention and Community Policing, Promoting Women's Participation in Policing and finally, Communication and Technology. According to the MTR, a total of 3000 extra women have entered the police service to support these new women officers and 2604 officers have been trained in gender sensitivity. Besides, 655 police officers and community members were given training in the basics of community policing while 992 police officers were trained in Basic ICT skills and assisted the police develop an ICT organisational structure through the development of the ICT Master Plan. Senior secretary to the Home Ministry CQK Mustak Ahmed termed the reform project as a vital one for the force, saying that it will help transition of the colonial style police force into service oriented force. "The police should give more emphasis on forensics and evidence gathering in investigations rather than confessions," he said, adding that he will provide all possible cooperation for it. Web link: http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=126340&date=2012-04-11 Author: FE Report Annual Report 2012 57
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