BSS, Dhaka :
The Open House Day, introduced 11 years back, has become a platform of the police-people interactions, as it has been playing a vital role in making law enforcers accountable to people and making them to take prompt action.
“The system is helping to make policemen accountable as people from the cross-section of the society put forward different irregularities of the police and forced them to take prompt action against corrupts after receiving such allegations,” Additional Deputy Commissioner of Motijheel division Saifur Rahman recently told BSS.
“We have got spontaneous response from commoners in the Open House Day programme usually held once or twice in a month at each of the police station across the country. Discussion in the programme is helping us a lot to get idea of the real law and order situation of the locality which help us to take next course of action,” he also said.
“It is the lone system where police officers have to face people directly and reply to their quarries,” he added.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Jatrabari Police Station Kazi Wazed Ali told BSS , “The programme helps to bridge gap between the police and the common people. We are now holding Open House Day discussion aimed at reaching the doorsteps of commoners to convince them to participate in the discussion with an open mind.”
“They (commoners) even lodge complaints against the policemen in the discussion forcing police to take action against their men for misdeeds,” he said, adding that sometimes police get suggestion from them in taking measures to combat crimes in some particular areas. “The main reason of the programme is to ensure a partnership between police and people to maintain law and order and curb crimes,” he further said.
Open House Day was introduced in 2007 as part of the police reform programme under the Community Policing Policy. Police hold the day once a month on any Saturday so that commoners and people get chance of talking directly to their respective police stations about their problems. Teachers of different schools and colleges, bank employees, political leaders of different parties, and representatives usually take part in the Open House Day discussion.
Allegations of various types of social crimes such as torture on women and children, dowry, drug trading, extortion, and harassment of commoners by the police usually dominates the Open House Day discussion.
The Open House Day, introduced 11 years back, has become a platform of the police-people interactions, as it has been playing a vital role in making law enforcers accountable to people and making them to take prompt action.
“The system is helping to make policemen accountable as people from the cross-section of the society put forward different irregularities of the police and forced them to take prompt action against corrupts after receiving such allegations,” Additional Deputy Commissioner of Motijheel division Saifur Rahman recently told BSS.
“We have got spontaneous response from commoners in the Open House Day programme usually held once or twice in a month at each of the police station across the country. Discussion in the programme is helping us a lot to get idea of the real law and order situation of the locality which help us to take next course of action,” he also said.
“It is the lone system where police officers have to face people directly and reply to their quarries,” he added.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Jatrabari Police Station Kazi Wazed Ali told BSS , “The programme helps to bridge gap between the police and the common people. We are now holding Open House Day discussion aimed at reaching the doorsteps of commoners to convince them to participate in the discussion with an open mind.”
“They (commoners) even lodge complaints against the policemen in the discussion forcing police to take action against their men for misdeeds,” he said, adding that sometimes police get suggestion from them in taking measures to combat crimes in some particular areas. “The main reason of the programme is to ensure a partnership between police and people to maintain law and order and curb crimes,” he further said.
Open House Day was introduced in 2007 as part of the police reform programme under the Community Policing Policy. Police hold the day once a month on any Saturday so that commoners and people get chance of talking directly to their respective police stations about their problems. Teachers of different schools and colleges, bank employees, political leaders of different parties, and representatives usually take part in the Open House Day discussion.
Allegations of various types of social crimes such as torture on women and children, dowry, drug trading, extortion, and harassment of commoners by the police usually dominates the Open House Day discussion.
The system has been introduced aimed at ensuring police-people participation in all the social issues including checking crimes. The police headquarters has directed all concerned to remain alert so that no criminal could get involved in the programme.
All the police stations across the country have been asked to hold the Open House Day once a month.
Police in the capital and outside of the capital inform the commoners of holding the Open House Day through letters or SMSs.
