THE gruesome murder of five members of a family that include men and women along with two teenage in their family bedrooms in Narayanganj on Friday afternoon shocked the nation again. Narayanganj made media headlines in May 2014 with a seven-murder case in which some members of a state security agency worked for a local ruling party man and many believe that the political influence, which some powerful leaders of the ruling party played to stall the trial of the murderers will always remain as an encouragement to commit group murders again, although it appears not to be a political murder case this time; but a case of vengeance of any sort.
The police high officials have every reason to worry that so many of their fellow officials are committing crimes themselves. Punishing few officials for torturing innocent people for money and others for serious crimes cannot be the answer. The whole management structure needs to be reexamined by police authority itself, not by political leaders who are using them. The political leaders must explain how to save police from feeling that they are the rulers and not law enforcers.
The police are failing to do their duty to save the people from crimes is too obvious.
The politics of remaining in power with the help of police power is fundamentally wrong for saving police as a force to maintain law and order. This is terribly disturbing for reducing crimes.
Bangladesh Bank now wants punishment of the policeman who tortured their officer, but did not care when others are tortured by police taking them into police custody.
We are not sure who kills and who is punished for whose offence as because police must obey political guidance and cannot be trusted prosecuting cases as impartially as they should.
That is the way to destroy police as a force of fighting criminals. The truth is police are helpless before crimes committed with connivance of political operatives of the government. We must not allow police to be destroyed.
