The Election Commission (EC) is set to hold a crucial meeting with law enforcement agencies on Thursday aimed at issuing directives on maintaining peaceful law and order ahead of the 11th general election scheduled to be held on December 30.
“We will hold meeting with the top officials of law enforcement agencies tomorrow (Thursday). A set of 12 directives will be delivered at the meeting to maintain peaceful law and order ahead of the 11th parliamentary polls,” the commission’s secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed said while briefing reporters at Election Commission headquarters in Dhaka on Wednesday.
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According to Helal Uddin, the directives include – recovery of illegal firearms, ensuring security to minority community, making smoothly going of female voters to polling centres, ensuring safety of election officials including returning and assistant returning officers, keeping electoral materials under safe custody, giving police escort for security of judicial and executive magistrates and maintenance of law and order before, during and after the election.
Four election commissioners, inspector general of police (IGP), secretary of Public Security Division of the Home Ministry, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner and other high officials of different law enforcement agencies are expected to attend the meeting.