Govt mulling campus police after Aug 20 incident
Friday, 31 August 2007
The government is pondering about forming campus police for maintaining internal security of the country's higher education institutions, as the recent violence at Dhaka University (DU) and backlash on other campuses worried the authorities, reports UNB.
The plan was discussed at the 10th meeting of the advisory council committee on law and order at Home Ministry Wednesday.
"Unwanted incidents on the DU campus on August 20 and the August 21-22 incidents at country's other universities and places were discussed at the meeting," said an official announcement.
The meeting was informed that a total of 74 policemen including high officials were hurt during the three-day mayhem triggered by an August 20 incident on the DU campus.
Taking stock of the situation, the meeting expressed satisfaction at the utmost tolerance shown by police members during the August 20-22 campus violence.
The fast-spreading agitation prompted the government decision of closing sine die all universities as well as colleges in divisional cities.
As similar outbreaks of unrest have often ravaged the country's export-oriented readymade garment industry, the meeting also discussed if industrial police could be introduced for maintaining law and order in the apparel factories.
It was told on behalf of the police that the country's law and order situation improved except for the August 20-22 incidents.
The meeting also examined an option for setting up hawkers' market on a limited scale in several areas of the city during Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr without hampering movement of the pedestrians.
Chaired by Law Adviser Mainul Hosein, the meeting was attended, among others, by Education Adviser Ayub Qaudri, home secretary, IGP, DGs of RAB and Ansar and other concerned high officials.
The plan was discussed at the 10th meeting of the advisory council committee on law and order at Home Ministry Wednesday.
"Unwanted incidents on the DU campus on August 20 and the August 21-22 incidents at country's other universities and places were discussed at the meeting," said an official announcement.
The meeting was informed that a total of 74 policemen including high officials were hurt during the three-day mayhem triggered by an August 20 incident on the DU campus.
Taking stock of the situation, the meeting expressed satisfaction at the utmost tolerance shown by police members during the August 20-22 campus violence.
The fast-spreading agitation prompted the government decision of closing sine die all universities as well as colleges in divisional cities.
As similar outbreaks of unrest have often ravaged the country's export-oriented readymade garment industry, the meeting also discussed if industrial police could be introduced for maintaining law and order in the apparel factories.
It was told on behalf of the police that the country's law and order situation improved except for the August 20-22 incidents.
The meeting also examined an option for setting up hawkers' market on a limited scale in several areas of the city during Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr without hampering movement of the pedestrians.
Chaired by Law Adviser Mainul Hosein, the meeting was attended, among others, by Education Adviser Ayub Qaudri, home secretary, IGP, DGs of RAB and Ansar and other concerned high officials.