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COMMUNITY-POLICING-DAY
Community Policing Day-2019 celebrated in Gaibandha
GAIBANDHA, OCT 26, 2019 (BSS) – The Community Policing Day-2019 was
celebrated in the district as elsewhere in the country today with a call to
gear up the community policing activity to make the society free from drug
abuse, terrorism and militancy.
This year’s theme of the day is “Policer Sange Kaaz Kori, Madak, Jangi,
Santrash Mukta Desh Gori”.
Marking the day, District Community Policing Coordination Committee
(DCPCC) chalked out the elaborate programmes.
The programmes included cake cutting, essay writing, debate, and art
competitions to the students, blood donation activity, staging drama on
community policing, and prizes distribution to the winners.
A grand rally, led by additional deputy inspector general (DIG) of
police, Rangpur range M. Ikbal Hossain, was brought out from Independence
Square and ended it in front of ZSA after parading the main roads of the town
this morning.
A discussion meeting organized by DCPCC was held in the auditorium of
Zila Shilpakala Academy (ZSA) of the town with M. Abdus Salam, convener of
DCPCC in the chair.
Additional DIG of police, Rangpur range, M. Ikbal Hossain addressed the
function as the chief guest and superintendent of police Towhidul Islam,
president of Bangladesh Awami League, district unit, Advocate Syed Shams-ul-
Alam Hiru, general secretary Abu Bakar Siddique, mayor of Gaibandha
Municipality Adv Shah Zahangir Kabir Milon, and member secretary of DCPCC
Protap Ghosh were present at the event as the special guest.
The speakers said there is no alternative to community policing to
maintain peaceful law and order situation in the country as Bangladesh is a
densely populated country.
They also underscored the need for gearing up the community policing
activity from urban to rural areas for eliminating drug abuse, terrorism,
militancy, stalking, child marriage and newly added cybercrimes.
The additional DIG also urged the community policing members to be more
serious, create confidence and belief to the people from all walks of life of
the society and make the policing activities more popular to them through
having community policing philosophy.
Later, the guests formally distributed prizes to the winners. The
programme was followed by cultural function where a number of artistes
rendered songs and performed dances to entertain the participants.
A large number of people including police officials, community policing
members, students, teachers, social workers and media men participated in the
programmes.
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