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BEAT-POLICING-GAIBANDHA
Beat policing gains trust of Gobindaganj people
GAIBANDHA, Nov 05, 2020 (BSS) – Beat policing is getting popular among
cross section of people in Gobindaganj upazila in the district as locals are
getting prompt service from police personnel much to check criminal
activities.
Beat policing mainly utilizes close relationship with the community members
within the assigned beat to strengthen police effectiveness and encourage
cooperative efforts to make a safer community.
Sources at police said the beat policing activity was introduced in all the
unions under the upazila this year aimed at increasing the effectiveness of
police service, ensuring quick service provided by the police personnel of
the respective police station, identifying the crime pattern, and criminals
side by side increasing the police-public relationship and preventing crimes.
The activities of Beat policing are to collect intelligence about crimes
and criminals, to build public awareness to prevent eve teasing, to promote
anti-drugs programmes, provide training to gate keeper and security guards,
to solve social problems through community policing, encourage the community
to appoint night guards, and remove the existing fear of people regarding
crime and people, the sources said.
OC of Gobindaganj police station AKM Mehedi Hasan said the entire area
under the police station is divided into 10 beat areas and one sub inspector
is assigned to work in each of the beat areas.
Every beat police have been arranging ‘uthan baithok’ regularly at various
places of his own beat area for increasing the effectiveness of police
service, he added.
Abdul Hannan, a community man, said they were pleased to see the overall
activities of beat policing being conducted by a number of sub inspectors
along with police members.
OC of Gobindaganj Thana AKM Mehedi Hasan said he was round the clock
monitoring the beat policing activities of the beat assigned police officers
and the community to make the activities in the upazila a grand success.
BSS/ CORR/ MR/RY/13:20hrs