More than 1.5 lakh policemen are to be trained to perform duties to secure the planned national elections in February next year, officials said.
鈥榃e will impart all the necessary training to 1.5 lakh or more police personnel to award the nation a free, fair, neutral and peaceful national election,鈥� police鈥檚 deputy inspector general Quazi Zia Uddin told BSS on Thursday.
Zia Uddin, stationed at the police headquarters and entrusted with the charge of main law enforcement agency鈥檚 human resources聽 development, said that he hoped the next polls to be a 鈥榣andmark one in the country鈥檚 history鈥�.
He said that PHQ鈥檚 HR department by then formulated nine training modules in the past three months incorporating suggestions of election experts and lawyers.
Zia Uddin described the course developed under his oversight 鈥榰nder the dynamic leadership of the inspector general of police and the additional IGP for HR as 鈥榳onderful鈥�.
The official said that he expected the course would be effective to prepare the police personnel to deal with any law and order situation successfully during the polls.
Bangladesh police has 130 smaller and four larger training centres across the country where its members would be trained following the course outline for election duties.
Zia Uddin said that as one of the election training instruments they developed two documentaries, one being an over 15-minute audio visual content and another a nine-minute film alongside a booklet.
He said that they already trained 150 master trainers under the modules at the PHQ in Dhaka from August 31 to September 2 and planned to develop 1292 master trainers or trainers of trainers at 19 police training centres across the country in the coming days.
The trainers, he said that would later train the more than 1.5 lakh policemen to be on polls duty.
鈥楢ll trainers will be given real time training after creating mock situations that can arise during the elections,鈥� Zia Uddin said, adding that the exercises were being carried out to ensure blanket security during the polls.
He said that the police headquarters would stage a formal opening ceremony to mark the launching of the training programme later that week at Rajarbagh Police Lines in the capital.
