Your child, your responsibility: IGP
Parents have to take the responsibility of monitoring their children to ensure their wellbeing, Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed said at a programme yesterday.
"Families have to be aware where their children go, what they do and who they mingle with. Parents have to take this responsibility," he said at an event at Rab Headquarters in the capital.
The programme was organised marking the celebration of Bangabandhu's birth centenary.
"Why did you give birth to your children if you cannot take the responsibilities? It is your social, moral and religious duty," the police chief said.
Benazir expressed concerns over children's involvement in teen gang culture, drug and other crimes and asked all to come forward to save them.
"What happened in Kalabagan is an out-an-out crime. Rape happened there, causing death," the IGP added.
Mentioning shortage of probation officers, correction centres and children courts, he said, "Children cannot be kept in jail, taken in police custody without probation officer... they cannot be sentenced to jail by a mobile court."
He asked for initiating a social movement to prevent juvenile gang culture until the facilities are in place.
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