প্রকাশ: 10/04/2022
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked police to achieve
people's confidence through humanitarian works as she inaugurated the
"Service Desk" at each police station and police housing scheme for
homeless people.
"Bangladesh police will be people's servant and will
acquire their trust and confidence. People will have to be rendered services in
such a way that they always have confidence in getting justice whenever they go
to police," she said.
The premier said this while virtually opening the two
humanitarian initiatives of police from her official Ganabhaban residence here
marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman.
The programme was held at Dhaka Metropolitan Police Lines,
Rajarbagh, Dhaka, while all the police stations, police ranges and police lines
were connected to it.
Inaugurating the "Service Desk" at all 659 police
stations across the country for women, children, elderly and disabled people
and handing over 400 houses built by police for homeless, she thanked the law
enforcement agency for the humanitarian initiatives.
"Today is a special day as the "Service Desk"
at each police station was opened across the country for women, children,
elderly and differently-able people and houses built by the police were
provided to homeless families," she said.
The premier asked the police personnel to work with honesty,
urging them to always stand beside the people and work for their welfare and
reach the services at their doorsteps as her government is working to do it.
"You have stood beside the people and always stay
beside them and work for their welfare," she said.
The prime minister also asked the police force to work for
ensuring people's rights who are lagging behind and being deprived of getting
services and to stand beside them as the government wants to make overall
development of the society.
She said her government is working for making the police
force as a specialised one and giving every possible advantage so the services
of police would reach the people's doorsteps.
Referring to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman's remark that police should be pro-people, the premier said the two
humanitarian initiatives are police's pro-people work.
Sheikh Hasina also exchanged views with some service receivers
from the service desk, women police personnel who are providing the service and
beneficiary people who got the police houses, connected remotely from different
parts of the country including Chattogram, Peerganj of Rangpur and Khulna.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and Senior Secretary of
Public Security Division at Home Ministry Md. Akhter Hossain spoke on the
occasion while Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Benazir Ahmed gave the
welcome address.
An audio-visual documentary on two humanitarian initiatives
of Bangladesh Police was screened at the function.
For opening the "Service Desk", a separate room
has been arranged at each of the police station.
A specially trained woman sub-inspector will lead the desk
with other skilled female officers.
The desks are also entrusted with informing visitors about
other government services and providing legal aid to victims who are
financially insolvent.
Police is set to build one house in 520 police stations each
across the country for the homeless people. In the first phase, the police have
distributed 400 houses.
The houses which were built with standard modern
construction materials are earthquake and hot resistance.
Mentioning that her government has always attached priority
on training, Sheikh Hasina said they would also take arrangement to train the
police personnel working at the service desk at home and abroad.
The police members who will impart training from abroad will
train others, she opined.
The prime minister said the people who are taking services
from the service desk, they can also get legal aid services free of cost as the
government has formed a committee and allocated required fund for this by
enacting necessary law.
She spelled out her government's various measures for
overall development of the police force, saying, "We want to build police
as a well-trained force which will stand by the people and work for the welfare
of people."
The world's longest serving head of the government said they
made police force digitally equipped alongside transforming Bangladesh into a
digital country with introducing internet at every union and launching
Bangabandhu Satellite-1 to orbit.
Now, the scope of police have increased to serve people of
hard-to-reach areas as the communication system is much well than before, she
said.
The prime minister said, "The Father of the Nation have
given us independence, and now my work is to serve the people being imbued with
the spirit of the Liberation War."
She said her government is working to bring every homeless
and landless under the housing scheme following the footsteps of the Father of
the Nation.
The prime minister said the housing schemes have been taken
as part of her government initiatives to do development from the grassroots.
"We're working to ensure reaching the benefits of
development to the grassroots instead of city or capital centric
development," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said it's a great task to provide houses by
Bangladesh Police to homeless people.
The prime minister highly praised the police personnel for
their humanitarian services that included reaching foods to the doorsteps
receiving call from 333 during the Covid-19 pandemic and giving emergency
services receiving phone from 999.
She said, "Rendering such humanitarian services, the
today's police have achieved trust and confidence of the people".
The prime minister greeted in advance all the police
personnel on upcoming Bangla Noboborsho and Eid-ul-Fitr.
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