URBAN traffic policing in Bangladesh, especially in megacities like Dhaka, operates within a complex and often dysfunctional institutional framework. Despite the presence of multiple agencies tasked with managing transport, enforcing traffic laws and overseeing infrastructure development, a persistent lack of coordination has severely limited the effectiveness...
TRAFFIC management remains one of the most pressing urban governance issues in Bangladesh, particularly in rapidly expanding metropolitan areas such as Dhaka, Chattogram and Khulna. The responsibility of ensuring road safety, maintaining order and enforcing traffic laws primarily lies with the traffic police. Despite their crucial role, traffic policing in Bangladesh...
IN THE age of smartphones, everyone carries a camera 鈥� and increasingly, everyone acts as if they are part of a production. In Bangladesh, this technological reality has collided with the erosion of privacy, creating an unsettling new normal: security checkpoints turned into stages for public spectacle. The stars of these impromptu performances are rarely willing...
THE July uprising exposed harsh truth. One of the most painful aspects was that the police, once seen as protectors, become a symbol of repression. The realisation pushed police reforms into the national spotlight, prompting the interim government to establish the police reforms commission, one of the six set up in the early phase of the interim goverment. The recently...
The remark made by an adviser that mob violence and moral policing will significantly decrease once law and order is fully restored and once people are aware is a redundant remark that only states the obvious. The environment, forest and climate change adviser made the remark at a briefing on March 4 after an advisory council meeting, which discussed the recent spate...
THE current policing model in Bangladesh is antiquated and ineffective. People have been subjected to an ineffective police system for 15 years. One proposal that is emerging as the police reform discussions pick up steam is that the police should be placed under a separate commission or be connected to an independent ministry to keep them...
DURING the previous regime of 15 years, the people of the country faced deep-rooted grievances and deprivation, aggravated by pervasive and systematic repression. Misgovernance, rampant corruption, unchecked arbitrariness, and the abuse of power fuelled widespread anger and antagonism among the populace. Amid this...
Thousands took to Lisbon鈥檚 streets on Saturday to protest against police use of force and racism, following a week of unrest sparked by the shooting of a black man by officers...