Mr SP, job well done

Tangail police, including the superintendent of police, control traffic in their efforts to ease the post-Eid congestion on Dhaka-Tangail highway on Saturday. Photo: Star

The call of duty is hard to deny. For Saleh Mohammed Tanvir, superintendent of police in Tangail, it was even harder when the job is all about giving at least something back to the people, the taxpayers.
Tanvir, who performed duty like an ordinary traffic policeman for long 19 hours at a stretch, was seen on duty at Elenga around 11:00am on Saturday, holding a stick in his hand to ease the horrible traffic congestion on Dhaka-Tangail highway.
Hours before, he was seen driving away jute vendors occupying the highway at Jamurki in Mirzapur, 20km from Elenga, in a tell-tale sign of his uncompromising effort to bring relief to the passengers from the nightmarish tailback.
He along with police personnel of different ranks in the district had eventually been able to put an end to the 34-hour-long tailback Saturday afternoon.
The law enforcers passed sleepless nights and could not have adequate food and drinking water, and had to forgo lavatory facilities for hours while performing their duties.
“We (police) are struggling hard to ease the congestion. Numerous extra vehicles including unfit ones were operating on the road much above the capacity of the two-lane highway,” the SP told this correspondent while on duty at Elenga around 11:00am.
He also requested the local journalists to write about the problems of the highway so that the authority could come up with measures in this regard in future.