The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has taken special measure to check robbery and theft in houses, shopping malls and markets for seven days during the Eid festival holidays.

"Some 1000 to 1500 policemen would be deployed for 7 days from and after the Eid day. Besides the DMP would set up 100 check-posts. Those check-posts could be set up within 15 minutes to check theft in houses, shopping malls and markets during the time," DMP Commissioner Naim Ahmed said while talking to reporters at his office yesterday.

The DMP Commissioner said police have been providing three-phase security on the eve of Eid. A total of 4,500 uniformed police, 14 Detective Branch women teams and 20 civil teams of the Detective Branch, so far, have patrolled the capital under the first phase since the first of Ramzan to check extortion, mugging and other kinds of crimes and will continue till the day before Eid.

Police would be deployed at Eidgahs and cinema halls to avert any kind of sabotage on the Eid day in the second phase, Naim Ahmed said.

Besides, the DMP has arranged coordinated traffic system for the first time for smooth movement of outbound and inbound passengers of the capital ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

The DMP Commissioner Naim Ahmed said under the new system, DMP officials would stay at different strategic points with wireless set helping dilute traffic congestions.

The DMP Commissioner already sat in a meeting with high police officials of Narayanganj, Gazipur and Dhaka districts to discuss the matter of coordinating traffic system.

He hoped that the new system would help ease vehicular movement through reducing traffic congestions.

He said that the DMP will also deploy police guard in puja mandaps as part of its security measures during Durga puja, the largest religious festival of the Hindu community.