New IGP for making police more people-friendly

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun on Tuesday expressed his firm determination to make the police services more people-friendly so that mass people can get benefits properly, reports BSS.
The new IGP in his maiden media briefing told that all necessary directives have already been issued to each and every police station across the country so that common people can get services properly and lodge complaint easily.
"We want to ensure police stations (thana) as means of people's confidence," he said replying to a query of journalists.
Mamun categorically added that police are committed to increase the quality of its services at any cost.
On terrorist acts, the IGP said Bangladesh police has now become a role model in combating terrorism and militancy across the globe.
"The law and order is very good at present as the capacity of police forces, including manpower, infrastructure and other logistic supports, were increased through undertaking various pragmatic steps in this connection," he added.
Abdullah Al-Mamun also renewed the police forces' 'Zero Tolerance' policy against corruption and troublemakers.
Asked about the US imposed sanctions on anti-crime elite forces Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and reformation of it, the IGP, also the immediate past RAB DG said, "The reformation process in RAB is a continuous process . . . The developments and modernizations are being done when necessary."