3023 to be recruited for industrial police
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Jubair Hasan
The government will recruit 3,023 members for the much-awaited industrial police force aiming at guarding the country's troublesome industrial hubs.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun informed the Jatiya Sangsad of it during the question-answer session Monday.
The move came after the country's highest foreign earners have been demanding such police force to protect their units at various industrial zones from the unruly workers who had vandalised hundreds of factories for the last several years in the name of protest.
The readymade garment sector, which accounts for 80 per cent of the country's total export, has been experiencing a number of violent unrest for the last one decade that costs billions of taka of the garment makers each year.
"A total of 3023 people will be deployed at various posts for Industrial Police to maintain law and order in industrial areas," the minister replied during a question-answer session at the national parliament.
She said the government has also approved in principle to recruit 32,031 more people for the country's 0.125 million force to prevent ever-raising criminal activities and population.
The garment makers expressed fear in several times of loosing export orders from the international buyers if the law and order situation does not improve.
An official of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), the country's apex apparel body, told the FE that several international buyers informed them that they would not get confidence to invest in the country due to unrest in the sector.
"Move to appoint 13,391 fresh police personnel in the initial phase is going on," she said, adding all of the police members have been brought under the ration facilities and quantity of such items was also increased.
Replying to another query, the home minister told the parliament that 1048 foreign prisoners from eight countries were detained in the country's different jails. Of them, 578 people are from Myanmar and 102 from India.
Other countries are Pakistan, Tanzania, Nepal, Japan, Malaysia and Hungary.
She said twenty-seven prisons have so far been constructed, constructions of 14 prisons are on full scale and steps are taken to set up four more jails across the country only to house a large number of prisoners which were more than double than its capacity.
The influential minister said they have taken initiative to promote chiefs of each police station in the country as the status of a first-class officer. "And it is on the final stage," she said.
Sahara Khatun informed that the government has so far arrested 88 members of the banned Islamic group, Hizb-ut Tahrir, since it outlawed the group's activities in October last year.
She also said two projects for installing fire stations at each upazila headquarter were placed before the planning commission to provide fire safety facilities for the people in the remote areas during fire incidents.
The government will recruit 3,023 members for the much-awaited industrial police force aiming at guarding the country's troublesome industrial hubs.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun informed the Jatiya Sangsad of it during the question-answer session Monday.
The move came after the country's highest foreign earners have been demanding such police force to protect their units at various industrial zones from the unruly workers who had vandalised hundreds of factories for the last several years in the name of protest.
The readymade garment sector, which accounts for 80 per cent of the country's total export, has been experiencing a number of violent unrest for the last one decade that costs billions of taka of the garment makers each year.
"A total of 3023 people will be deployed at various posts for Industrial Police to maintain law and order in industrial areas," the minister replied during a question-answer session at the national parliament.
She said the government has also approved in principle to recruit 32,031 more people for the country's 0.125 million force to prevent ever-raising criminal activities and population.
The garment makers expressed fear in several times of loosing export orders from the international buyers if the law and order situation does not improve.
An official of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), the country's apex apparel body, told the FE that several international buyers informed them that they would not get confidence to invest in the country due to unrest in the sector.
"Move to appoint 13,391 fresh police personnel in the initial phase is going on," she said, adding all of the police members have been brought under the ration facilities and quantity of such items was also increased.
Replying to another query, the home minister told the parliament that 1048 foreign prisoners from eight countries were detained in the country's different jails. Of them, 578 people are from Myanmar and 102 from India.
Other countries are Pakistan, Tanzania, Nepal, Japan, Malaysia and Hungary.
She said twenty-seven prisons have so far been constructed, constructions of 14 prisons are on full scale and steps are taken to set up four more jails across the country only to house a large number of prisoners which were more than double than its capacity.
The influential minister said they have taken initiative to promote chiefs of each police station in the country as the status of a first-class officer. "And it is on the final stage," she said.
Sahara Khatun informed that the government has so far arrested 88 members of the banned Islamic group, Hizb-ut Tahrir, since it outlawed the group's activities in October last year.
She also said two projects for installing fire stations at each upazila headquarter were placed before the planning commission to provide fire safety facilities for the people in the remote areas during fire incidents.