Speakers at a view exchange meeting on community-based policing have called upon all for raising police-people mutual trust in curbing crimes and maintaining peace and harmony.
Nababganj Thana organised the meeting at its office in Nababganj upazila town of Dinajpur with the assistance of Asia Foundation, RDRS Bangladesh and USAID on Friday.
Members of the upazila and Sadar union units of community based policing committees, local community leaders, police officials, civil society members and local journalists took part in it.
Assistant Superintendent of Police of Fulbari Circle of Dinajpur Police Shushanto Sarker attended it as the chief guest with Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) of Nababganj police station Sambhudas Gupta Suman in the chair.
President of Nababganj Sadar union community based policing committee Amirul Islam, General Secretary Hafizur Rahman, member Azizur Rahman, freedom fighter Mahmudul Islam, District
Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Nirmal Chandra Barman and Nababganj Upazila Coordinator Abdur Razzaque, spoke.
The speakers called for improving relationship between police and citizen through building mutual trust, partnership, information sharing and strategic planning to address root causes of crimes instead of solving those on more time consuming case-by-case basis.
They urged the police and common people to break down longstanding barrier of mistrust and explore opportunities of community based policing for strengthening police effectiveness to ensure citizens’ safety mobilizing local resources.
They suggested police officials for applying their communication and leadership techniques they learnt from different training courses for awareness-raising, developing skill in crime analysis, response, intervention and evaluation