DMP collects data of 7.2m people to curb terrorism

Outgoing Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Md Asaduzzaman Miah has said police have collected citizen data of 7.2 million people, living in the capital, as part of its preventive measures to curb terrorism during his four-and-a half-year tenure, reports BSS.

"We have collected detailed information of more than 7.2 million people of the capital to curb terrorism and militancy during the time and that is my prime achievement as the DMP Commissioner," he said while talking to the news agency at his office on Tuesday.

The citizen data has been enriched with multi-dimensional information through investigations by the Detective Branch (DB), Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) and other units of the DMP, he said.

Collection of information of tenants under the Citizen Information Management System (CIMS) will be continued in future as no militants and extremists could take shelter in guise of tenants, Asaduzzaman Miah added.

The longest serving outgoing commissioner who is also an Additional Inspector General of Police said the social network of the police has also been enhanced through community and bit policing.

He said the DMP established a team characterised by the highest form of professionalism by changing attitude that police is not the master of people, they are the service providers.

With an honest confession in failing reduction of city traffic congestion, the DMP chief expressed the hope that after completion of the ongoing development projects of the government including Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and Flyover, the situation would improve significantly.