Staff Reporter :
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on using unauthorized stickers of different professions on personal vehicles.
It has also imposed bar on tinted glasses, and makes use of official stickers mandatory on vehicles in a bid to curb crimes in the capital.
The DMP chief Asaduzzaman Mia made the disclosure at a press briefing at the DMP media centre on Wednesday afternoon.”Stickers identifying various professionals like journalists, police and lawyers, could not be used on personal vehicles instead of organisations. Because, criminals commit different types of crime using such strikers on cars and they are fleeing the scene using the cars with unauthorized stickers of press, police and advocates. So we have banned this kind of stickers,” said the DMP Commissioner.
Asaduzzaman Mia also warned against the use of hydraulic horns in the vehicles and asked all to remove those or face music.
Labels authorised by an organisation will be allowed, he said. “When journalists are on duty and headed to official work on cars that bear the name of that organisation… for example, a television channel… that’s fine.
Moreover, DMP police will not allow three or more people on a motorcycle, the DMP boss said adding that if anyone is found violating the instruction, he or she will be fined.
He also informed that police already has started its drive against these kinds of stickers from April 24, Asaduzzaman informed.
The DMP chief said, “So traffic police have been told to make sure no cars with these extra stickers are allowed to pass (without check).”
Labels for government ministries, Parliament and law-enforcing agencies were used in the past for cars carrying illegal drugs among other criminal activities, he mentioned.
Police in Comilla last year found 300 bottles of phensedyl in a car which bore a sticker of the Ministry of Public Administration.
A van with a police banner, searched at Chittagong’s Lohagara, was carrying locally made alcoholic drinks in 2014.
Also huge phensedyl were recovered from a car which bore a sticker of Member of Parliament in Jessore while huge amount of wine was seized from a car bore a sticker of a private TV channel.
