PM lauds cops for tackling opposition
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday appreciated the police force for their performance in tackling the opposition's agitation programmes as well as containing militancy and terrorism.
“You are playing your due role in facing the agitation programmes of the opposition,†the premier said while addressing senior police officials at her office, marking the Police Week.
Hasina also said if someone from the government breaks the law, police must also bring them under the ambit of law.
On a demand of the force, she said the government has agreed to create a separate division for the police under Home Affairs Ministry in the next year and asked the home ministry to add it in their next budget proposal.
Hasina also announced that the government has decided to upgrade two posts of the police to grade one.
Commemorating the sacrifices of the police on March 25, 1971, Hasina said her government for the first time awarded the force with Swadhinata Award 2011.
While referring the recent first verdict of the war crimes tribunal as an achievement, she applauded the contribution of the police to it.
The force have also upheld the country's image by contributing to the UN peacekeeping mission, Hasina said further and praised female police officers for their role.
Stressing the importance of specialised training for the police force, she said the force must be able to face the new strategy of committing crimes.
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