Media support vital to combat urban crimes

BOGRA: Mahila forum Chhatra front fromed a human chain at Satmatha in the city demanding punishment to the attacker of Khadija yesterday.
BOGRA: Mahila forum Chhatra front fromed a human chain at Satmatha in the city demanding punishment to the attacker of Khadija yesterday.
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BSS, Rajshahi :
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has sought all-out cooperation from all journalists working here to combat the crimes including militancy, terrorism and drugs abusing in the metropolis.
Joint efforts of police and media personnel could be the effective means of building a crime-free society which is very important to take it forward successfully.
The observations came at a view-sharing meeting between RMP high officials and editors and senior journalists of local dailies at RMP Headquarters here on Thursday.
RMP Commissioner Shafiqul Islam addressed the meeting as focal person while Additional Commissioner Sarder Tamij Uddin and Deputy Commissioners Tanvir Haider Chowdhury, AKM Nahidul Islam, Abu Zafar and Tofayel Ahmed supplemented him.
Among the attending journalists, Editor of Dainik Barta SMA Kader, Editor of Daily Sonali Sangbad Liakat Ali, Editor of Daily Sonar Desh Akbarul Hassan Millat and Editor of Daily Sunshine Tasiqul Islam Bakul spoke on the occasion.
In the meeting, various issues like drugs trafficking and abusing, traffic jam, social crimes, police-journalists relationship and community policing were discussed elaborately devising ways and means on how to check the crimes effectively.
RMP Commissioner Shafiqul Islam said maladjustment, rising crime, health hazards, murder and suicide are the major consequences of abusing of drugs like heroin, phensidyle, ganja, pathedine and tranquilizers.
Crimes-free society, particularity free from drug addiction, must be restored at any cost to protect people and the young generation in particular from consequences of deadly aggression of crimes.
To attain the desired goal, the law enforcing agencies, media personnel and community people should have to work together as law enforcers alone isn’t capable to overcome the crises.
He said the community people should extend cooperation towards police with specific information about the criminals. The community people know well about location of the criminals, drug traffickers and traders and the police need the information from the citizens for taking legal action against them.
The RMP Chief added that 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.

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