We want to trust police
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News of atrocities committed by police is reaching us everyday. We are appalled by it and feeling very upset. The latest incident is about two sub-inspectors assaulting and harassing a teenaged girl and her father and mother in the police club next door to Dhaka magistrate's court on May 29, 2012. Police took the 15-year-old girl to a separate room and behaved with her indecently. Police also assaulted the journalists and lawyers to whom she was narrating the incident.
We think time has come to pull down the signboards which read: "Police is your friend, take help of police" and put up signboards "Beware of police" written on it.
We used to tell our children that whenever they are in trouble, they should seek the help of police. Now parents will have to tell their children to keep a safe distance from them. State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku advised journalists to keep a "safe distance" from police while collecting news. We are astonished by this advice, are police ferocious beings?
As usual, Home Minister Sahara Khatun on May 30, 2012 claimed that police were "far better" than any time in the past. She always speaks about law and order situation in that manner. So it is no wonder that police will do whatever they wish when home minister herself speaks in their favour.
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