QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT - Police Reform Programme

Police Reform Programme (Phase-II)
CRIME PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY POLICING
Key Outcome: Improved trust and interaction between community and police resulting in
improved access to justice, human rights and reduced fear of crime.
Key Activities and Progress:
Output 4.1: Community policing philosophy is being integrated into policing
operations
Activity 4.1.3: Efforts to establish 80 community policing centres up to district levels to
develop crime prevention plans, consistent with the national strategy, with the
community (Training for 140 CPO's and 140 CPF members)
Training conducted for senior police officers on Community Policing
The component arranged two
batches of training on “Community
Policing for Senior Police Officers”
during the period and 38 senior
police officers attended the training.
During the training, the participants
were acquainted with community
policing concepts, sensitization,
participation and mobilization of the
public, experience sharing and
replication of best practices in
Bangladesh and identification of the
roles and responsibilities of senior
officers in implementing community
policing at the grassroots level.
Establishment of 67 CP units is in progress
Process has been completed to procure furniture for the establishment of additional 67
Community Policing Units (CPUs) in 67 police stations.
Activity 4.1.5 Support Bangladesh Police to undertake joint police-community events,
including school visits and workshops and interaction on the concepts and
methodologies of community policing and crime prevention
Painting Competition held for Inter-Police Schools and the Traffic Safety Week at Khulna
The Range Police, Khulna, organized two programmes sponsored by PRP, Painting Competition for
Inter-Police Schools under Khulna Range, aiming to improve the image of the Bangladesh Police
amongst school children. The programmes were followed by prize awarding to the best painters.
The Cox’s Bazar Police held, in collaboration with the PRP, a Traffic Safety Week in September
2012. This initiative included the development of leaflets on traffic awareness, school orientation
and driver’s orientation. The leaflets were distributed at the town bus terminal and five schools
were included in the road safety orientation initiative.
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