More vigilance stressed to curb cross-border drug smuggling

RAJSHAHI, Aug 20 (BSS): Discussants at a view-sharing meeting here today called for more vigilance along the frontiers to check cross-border drugs smuggling and trafficking.
They viewed that it was not possible only by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) or any other single law-enforcing agency to root out crime.
Rajshahi Sector of BGB organized the meeting with journalists at the rest house of its Headquarter to devise ways and means on how to address the problem with collective efforts.
Deputy Director General and Sector Commander of BGB Col Ferdousul Shahab spoke on the occasion as focal person. 37 BGB Battalion Commanding Officer Lt Col Anwar-ul-Alam, Second-in-Command Major Masuduzzaman Khan and Ops Officer Major Kamrul Hassan and Major Abdul Hannan Khan of Sector Headquarters were present, among others.
Various border issues like smuggling of drugs, narcotics substances and cattle heads, trafficking of women and children, opening gunfire by Indian BSF, security of the people living near zero line, identification of border crimes and illegal trespassing came up for discussion.
Colonel Shahab said drugs-free society must be built at any cost to protect people and the young generation in particular from deadly aggression of the drugs.
He said the community people should extend cooperation to BGB with specific information about the drugs-smugglers. "If they give us authentic information about the criminals, we will put in our best efforts to bring them to book," he asserted.
He said the community people know well about location of the criminals and the BGB needs the information from them for taking legal action against them.