Speakers at a conference said wide-ranging community participation is very important for making the community policing forum effective and
meaningful for the sake of building crimes-free society.
In the wake of gradually rising trend of social crimes especially addiction of drugs and its trafficking and trading, they viewed only the law-enforcers or any other single organization isn’t capable to uproot the crimes. So, collective efforts of police and community people are needed, they added. The observations came at a members-conference of Chapainawabgonj District Community Policing Forum held at Sadar Model Police Station complex on Sunday. Manob Kolyan Parishad (MKP) organized the conference in association with the Asia Foundation and USAID.Superintendent of Police Basir Ahamed and Sadar Upazila Chairman Ruhul Amin addressed the conference as the chief and special guests respectively with SM Bazlur Rashid, Officer-in-Charge of the police station, in the chair.Among others, Additional Superintendent of Police Al Mamun, district coordinator of community policing forum Mohita Kumar Dan, MKP Project Coordinator Safiul Awal, District Coordinator Saiful Islam and Upazila Coordinators Rabiul Haque and Shahidul Islam also spoke on the occasion.The speakers said united efforts of police and people on mutual trust and confidence can curb anti-social activities to build a crime-free society through improving law and order everywhere in the society. They put emphasis on breaking down longstanding barrier of mistrust between police and people and explore opportunities of community policing for strengthening police effectiveness and ensuring citizens’
safety through local initiatives.SP Basir Ahamed said the community based policing had been introduced in the district with a noble view, but the community people should take the responsibility of making it effective. As a whole, police-citizens joint patrolling and drives against the social crimes are the main objective of the community based policing and there is no alternative to activating it to free the society from the crimes.“If you give us authentic information about the criminals and other anti-social elements, we will put in our level best efforts to bring those to book,” he reminded the community people.He stressed on improving police-citizen relation through building trust, partnership and information sharing to address root causes of crimes.The chief guest underscored the need for proactive attitude of police officers for strengthening the community policing movement involving
the local communities to resolve the petty problems for a peaceful society. -BSS, Rajshahi
