The New Nation - Internet Edition

Nurun Nabi

Crime and violence have been identified as a key issue for Dhaka, and particularly affects the urban people. In mega cities Dhaka a number of professional criminal gangs commit various types of crimes.. The criminal gangs are often used ultra modern arms and also sophisticated equipment to do so. People of urban areas, therefore, always run the risk of falling victim to any type of crime. The crimes committed in urban areas are hijack, murder, kidnapping and abduction, burglary, pick-pocketing, rape, smuggling and abuse of drugs, smuggling of gold, suppression of domestic servants, acid throwing, fraud and deceit, and also white collar crimest Tendency of committing crime in the Dhaka city have increased significantly during last five months specially murder and hijacking. There have been occurred 114 murder between last January 2008 to May, 28, 2008.In January number of it were 16, 24 were occurred in both February and March, 25 in April and 25 is in April. The sheer scale and diversity of crime and violence in the Dhaka means that it has become 'routinized' or 'normalized' into the functional reality of life, and affects every aspect of daily life for the cities people. Urban crime and violence are no longer considered just a 'social' or 'law and order' problem, but also as an obstacle to development which erodes the Poor's human, physical, and social capital, and with high associated economic costs. Whilst estimating the costs of crime and violence in Dhaka is beyond the scope of this study, these include costs to the judicial system, health care costs, foregone earnings, and costs on private security, loss of competitiveness, and loss of jobs, production. Urban crime and violence affect all levels of society: the rich and - even more - the poor, women and men, and young and old. Urban crime and violence also generate a climate of fear. The fear of crime and violence are 'serious threats to the stability and social climate of cities, to sustainable and economic development, the quality of life and human rights'." Socio-economic reality of urban areas is totally different from that of rural areas; hence the types of crime are different. All the banks, shopping centers, government offices are situated in the cities. People carry hard currency; females wear valued ornaments, huge amounts transacted for business purpose. All these realities create huge opportunities for miscreants to commit different types of crimes specially hijacking and armed robberies.

Response to Law Enforcement Agency:

Problem-solving has been widely advocated as an effective and efficient way of reducing crime. Analysis is critical to this approach. Prior to the police officials, the review identified insufficient recognition by forces of the importance of analysis, and a lack of good practice on the ground.

Dhaka Metropolitan police Commissioner Noyem Ahmed recently said that, a great initiative against this crime is carried out such as apprehend the weapons and arrest the criminals on the basis of limited analysis of the data (typically this consisted of where hotspots exist, types of weapons they are used and at what time - and the broadest picture of victims and suspects). Since the onset of the Initiative, however, the scope and breadth of data collected about crime has broadened, and with it the quality of intelligence and crime pattern analysis has improved. Critically, this has been more rigorously allied to tactical operational decisions. Some forces have successfully adopted a more formal framework for incorporating analysis into operational decision making, ensuring that the role of the analyst is not sidelined in problem-solving responses.

The Metropolitan police offer should create notable examples of this approach. Murder, hijacking, robbery is a complex problem that is diverse in nature (Smith, 2003).

While it is important to describe patterns in murder, hijacking, robbery, where and when offences take place and the characteristics of offenders and victims, it is of equal importance to understand why these incidents occur. Effective analysis involves more than simple mapping. It also needs to explain why some victims are targeted and not others, or why some locations regularly appear as hot-spots. Analysis is reliant on good quality data, expertise in data analysis and the necessary computing (and other) facilities. An important lesson from the current review is the need for the police to extract as much relevant information as possible for their crime reports and, in order to yield an explanation of why urban crime occurs most often, analysis must consider the more qualitative information from victim statements alongside the hard coded data on time and location.

Police forces and partnerships should increase shaped their responses in the context of a common set of management principles. These involve, for example, the need for problems to be clearly defined and prioritized, for initiatives to be properly resourced and for there to be a clear statement at the outset of the roles and responsibilities of all involved. These important principles need to be underpinned with expertise in crime analysis and problem solving. The interventions that the police, partnerships and others can take to tackle personal robbery are very wide-ranging and the review seldom found anti-robbery initiatives focusing exclusively on one form of intervention. Typically, they incorporated a number of complementary strands, or a 'cocktail' of activities that could be summarized under the following headings:

_ Identifying hotspots

_ Offender targeting

_ Apprehend the criminal

_ Improving surveillance

_Seize the illegal weapons

_ High visibility policing

_ designing out crime

_ Detection

_ Crime prevention advice for higher risk groups

_ implementing longer-term social interventions

_ improving downstream criminal justice processes

These activities should solely be undertaken by the police and many rested on partnership work with a range of agencies. These may give a fruitful result to reduce urban crime and create a peaceful environment to the urban peoples.