Joynal Abedin Khan :
An all-out drive is going on across the country to curb human trafficking, AKM Shahidul Hoque, Inspector General of Police (IGP) told the reporter on Saturday.
“There will be no compromise with those who traffick humans whatever powerful they may be. The police superintendents have been directed to arrest those culprits,” the IGP said.
The countrymen also are falling victim of human trafficking thru border areas which must be stopped at any cost, the police boss said.
The IGP said that measures will also be taken if any police member is found involved with the inhuman crime.
Earlier, the government has ordered the lawenforcement agencies to immediately arrest around
350 listed human traffickers, operating mainly in Cox’s Bazar with the help of locally-influential persons.
The traffickers are active mainly at 60 points along the coastal areas of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Patuakhali, Barguna, Satkhira, Jhalakathi and Khulna, sources said.
Meanwhile, police arrested an alleged human trafficker from Tolagordarpara area of Sadar upazila in Jessore district early Sunday. The arrested man was identified as Anarul, son of Abdul Hakim of the area, said Shikdar Akkas Ali, Officer in-Charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station.
“The Home Ministry has already instructed the law enforcers to monitor the cases filed against human traffickers with different police stations,” said Banaz Kumar Majumder, Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Additional Commissioner (crime and operation) and chief of a four-member Anti-Human-Trafficking Special Committee.
On December 31, the committee submitted eight-point recommendations to the authorities concerned. But the government is yet to give its decision on the report, the police official said.
“The government will come up with specific orders after the ministries complete analysing the special committee report,” he said.
The committee had identified 11 international and 230 Bangladeshi human traffickers, including 26 domestic money launderers, engaged in the trafficking business. Of them, five criminals were killed in gunfights with the law enforcers recently while a dozen other suspected traffickers arrested in Cox’s Bazar.
According to the special committee report, a total of 3,793 people were rescued from Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong districts in the last five years, and 276 cases lodged with police stations in which 1,589 persons were prosecuted. The report also mentioned that traffickers’ agents were found roaming in 41 districts. It said around 15,000-20,000 people were trafficked to Thailand and Malaysia during the last 10 years.
An all-out drive is going on across the country to curb human trafficking, AKM Shahidul Hoque, Inspector General of Police (IGP) told the reporter on Saturday.
“There will be no compromise with those who traffick humans whatever powerful they may be. The police superintendents have been directed to arrest those culprits,” the IGP said.
The countrymen also are falling victim of human trafficking thru border areas which must be stopped at any cost, the police boss said.
The IGP said that measures will also be taken if any police member is found involved with the inhuman crime.
Earlier, the government has ordered the lawenforcement agencies to immediately arrest around
350 listed human traffickers, operating mainly in Cox’s Bazar with the help of locally-influential persons.
The traffickers are active mainly at 60 points along the coastal areas of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Patuakhali, Barguna, Satkhira, Jhalakathi and Khulna, sources said.
Meanwhile, police arrested an alleged human trafficker from Tolagordarpara area of Sadar upazila in Jessore district early Sunday. The arrested man was identified as Anarul, son of Abdul Hakim of the area, said Shikdar Akkas Ali, Officer in-Charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station.
“The Home Ministry has already instructed the law enforcers to monitor the cases filed against human traffickers with different police stations,” said Banaz Kumar Majumder, Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Additional Commissioner (crime and operation) and chief of a four-member Anti-Human-Trafficking Special Committee.
On December 31, the committee submitted eight-point recommendations to the authorities concerned. But the government is yet to give its decision on the report, the police official said.
“The government will come up with specific orders after the ministries complete analysing the special committee report,” he said.
The committee had identified 11 international and 230 Bangladeshi human traffickers, including 26 domestic money launderers, engaged in the trafficking business. Of them, five criminals were killed in gunfights with the law enforcers recently while a dozen other suspected traffickers arrested in Cox’s Bazar.
According to the special committee report, a total of 3,793 people were rescued from Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong districts in the last five years, and 276 cases lodged with police stations in which 1,589 persons were prosecuted. The report also mentioned that traffickers’ agents were found roaming in 41 districts. It said around 15,000-20,000 people were trafficked to Thailand and Malaysia during the last 10 years.
