The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The law enforcement agencies will deploy a 5,000-strong security force in the city today to check any public nuisance during the New Year's Day celebrations and post election violence.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Naim Ahmed said through a press note that policemen would be on duty as part of security measures during the New Year's Day celebrations in the city.

Naim Ahmed said DMP would remain especially alert and all security measures would be in place to ensure safety and security of city dwellers.

The Rapid Action Battalion members and intelligence agencies will also keep vigil at important city points and on the streets this afternoon to ensure safety.

The city police, meanwhile, has tightened security in and around the diplomatic enclave in the city.

A number of mobile teams of law enforcers will keep vigil at city points from today to check any nuisance of unruly New Year revellers.

The police in a release yesterday said transport movement on some city areas would be restricted at night on December 31.

All the roads and crossings, except for Kakali and Phoenix Road (Gulshan Shooting Club) leading to Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara will be put under watch.

The ban on traffic will be in force on the streets around Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Nilkhet, Plassey crossing, Bakshibazar, Chankharpool, Nimtali, Government Employees' Hospital, and the Supreme Court building.

No one but students of Dhaka University and the residents of the campus will be allowed to enter the area after 8:00pm today. But the residents can go outside the campus using any roads.

Ambulances, fire engines and vehicles of other emergency services will be kept out of the purview of the restrictions.

We have strengthened security measures around the diplomatic zone,' said a senior official of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday.

The official said the deployment of law enforcers has been doubled in the zone, especially for the embassies of the United States, United Kingdom and the Middle-East countries.