RMP gains professional strength to combat crimes

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has attained professional competence to combat different types of crimes side by side with ensuring the safety of the public in general.

On Monday RMP Commissioner Abu Kalam Siddique said they are putting in their level best efforts of maintaining peace and tranquillity everywhere in the metropolis through people's participation.

"We have re-organised and reactivated the community policing committees coupled with infusing dynamism into the activities of bit policing to reach the police services to the people's doorsteps," he added.

Around 30,000 people were brought under the community and bit policing activities during the last two years encouraging them to stand against all sorts of crimes coupled with making the efforts of alternative dispute resolution successful.

Commissioner Kalam Siddique said they have brought the entire metropolis under surveillance by installing around 500 close-circuit cameras at important points aimed at checking crimes. As a result, no significant incident of law and order has happened in the last two years.

They have intensified surveillance activities to protect adolescents from different types of crimes and prepared a digital database of juvenile gangs preserving data about 425 juveniles along with keeping them in close and regular monitoring aimed at eradicating their crimes.

He said their Cybercrime unit has attained success in terms of combating crimes related to cyber crimes in the metropolis since its inception on September 17, 2020, extending support towards the identification and arrest of criminals in connection with cyber crimes.

Moreover, the unit has also disposed of 3,291 cases of harassment and blackmailing of women by threatening to spread their sensational videos, hacking their Facebook accounts, and sending pornographic pictures and videos through fake messenger.

Such steps of the Cyber Crime Unit have earned appreciation and praise from a cross-section of people.

It has been working relentlessly in the field of unearthing clueless incidents, criminal identification and arresting them. Apart from this, it's sending necessary and demand-driven information to the adjacent district through proper channels.