Annual Report - Police Reform Programme

Police Reform Programme
(Phase-II)
Dec 20, 2012
Police reveal three-year strategic plan
Staff Correspondent
The police on Wednesday,
revealing its three years 'strategic
plan', said it would focus on
forensic investigation rather than
testimony-based investigation to
cope with the type and number of
crimes increasing day by day.
They would set up criminal and
intelligence database under the
supervision of police and its other
units.
The organisers said they set more
than a hundred targets in 10 core
areas in the strategic plan -
2012-2014 and the police units will
be implementing them between
January 2013 and December 2014.
The Bangladesh Police, in
collaboration with the
UNDP-sponsored the Police
Reform Programme, organised the
function at the Ruposhi Bangla
Hotel in the capital.
The key strategic areas are
intelligence, crime and public order
management, traffic enforcement,
community policing, human
resources and organisational
structure development, logistic and
infrastructure management,
training information and
communication technology and
service delivery.
Under the plan, the police will be
equipped with adequate number of
modern non-lethal and semi-lethal
weapons.
Addressing the function, home
minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir
urged the policemen to uphold their
responsibilities and authorities
given by the constitution.
The minister urged the police to
protect democracy and uphold
human rights issue.
He urged the police to take
effective measures to check terror
financing, cyber crime, money
laundering and transnational crime.
CQK Mustaq Ahmed, senior
secretary in home affairs ministry,
urged the police to earn the trust of
people.
The strategic plan was prepared by
the police working group and a
consulting team of the Institute of
Business Administration.
Inspector general of police Hassan
Mahmood Khandker, among
others, was present at the function.
Under the plan, the police will
decrease the percentage of
constable from 70 to 82 per cent
and increase the number of officers
ranking assistant subinspector to
inspector from 17 per cent to 25
per cent.
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