BSS, Gaibandha :
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.
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.
