The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was raised and specially empowered and enabled to bypass traditional law enforcement agencies like the police. After its formation, the RAB showed brilliant successes and organised crimes receded as a result. A considerable number of top criminals were killed or nabbed by it and others fled the country to escape its dragnet.
Under the present circumstances, the RAB has to be activated afresh particularly to deal with such criminals. It has to play a proactive role against crimes and criminals and that too in a more convincing way that it means real business about armed gangsters, miscreants and hoodlums. This is more so as the crime gangs that earlier appeared busted are now to be reportedly trying to stage a comeback.
The RAB needs to step up its round the clock vigilance to detect formation of organised crime syndicates and to take pre-emptive actions against such formations. While doing so, it must instil confidence among the members of the public and must not create anxiety and panic for any misdirected action, deliberate or not.
The RAB is purported to serve as an especially efficient, capable and highly motivated elite law enforcement body for delivering the country's businesses on a sustainable basis from the underworld. Law-and-order related problems dogged the country for very long. Investors local and foreign, were mainly put off by the slide in law and order. The people would appreciate here the RAB's exceptionally positive activities. We would like the RAB to step up its activities to maintain law and order.
The business environment in the country can be better in a significant way, centering on a law and order upturn. The economy's expansion, jobs and incomes of people are, indeed, vitally dependent on maintenance of a healthy law and order situation.
Hemayetuddin Ahmed
Sector 3, Uttara, Dhaka
Law and order, and RAB
FE Team | Published: October 02, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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