Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has attained professional strengths and competence to protect law and order together with ensuring safety to the public in general through combating all sorts of crimes.
Utmost emphasis has been given on mitigating various types of social offenses, including juvenile crimes, food adulteration and reckless driving, through generating mass-awareness.
Talking to BSS here recently, RMP Commissioner Biplob Bijoy Talukder said they are putting in their level best efforts for maintaining peace and tranquility everywhere in the metropolis through people's participation.
He said they are conducting motorbike rehearsal by police teams on different main roads and tourists and amusement spots so that the peace-loving people are sensitized against the social crimes.
Students of schools and colleges are being discouraged from
going outside during their academic time.
Guardians are also being requested to care for their kids for their proper grooming.
In adjacent and surrounding areas of educational institutions, unnecessary gatherings of youths and juveniles who are supposed to be derailed are brought under surveillance to prevent eve-teasing and to control juvenile crimes.
"We have re-organized and reactivated the community policing committees coupled with infusing dynamism into the activities of bit policing to reach the police services to the peoples' doorsteps," he added.
RMP has been arranging awareness meetings on traffic rules for drivers and guardians of juveniles to promote sound traffic systems in the city as road accidents bring long-lasting pains and sufferings to many families.
It has set up check-posts at 36 important points to prevent road traffic accidents through controlling reckless driving of motorbikes by the unruly youths.
"We have already launched the 'no helmet no fuel' programme for preventing road accidents," said the RMP chief, adding that the main thrust of their programme is to create awareness among the people.
Petrol pump owners and employees were given instructions for not selling fuel to the motorbike owners without having helmets, he said.
The commissioner said the present government has declared zero tolerance to drug-addiction and urged all quarters to come forward to protect the young generation from the grip of social crimes.
"We have to build a healthy society to achieve sustainable development goals," he said, adding the movement against drug abuse will have to be turned into a social movement.
