Strict implementation of laws imperative to combat drugs-terrorism: IGP
November 19, 2008
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nur Mohammad on Tuesday said proper and strict implementation of the country’s existing laws is enough in effectively combating drugs and terrors.
“There is no need to make new law in eliminating drugs and terrorism from the country. It’ll be possible through the existing laws of the state if proper and strict implementation is ensured,” said Nur Mohammad, who heads the country’s biggest law-enforcement agency, the police.
He made the observations to reporters after attending a RAB-organized narcotics-destruction programme at the RAB-1 office in the morning.
The law-enforcing agencies incinerated huge quantities of narcotics worth over Tk 2 crore that were seized in the last 2-3 months under their drives against the wide-spread menace of drugs.
Among the drugs items, the elite force destroyed 42,488 bottles and 252.8 liters of banned Indian cough-syrup ‘phensidyl’, around 300 kgs of cannabis, over 1.5 lakh Yaba tablets that eat up high-society youngsters.
On a query, the IGP said they would take special initiatives against terrorists, if necessary, ahead of the general election and hoped that the upcoming parliamentary polls would be held in free, fair and terrorism-free environment.
“Some unexpected incidents occurred in recent times, but it’s isolated, not alarming,” he said.
Speaking as chief guest at the function, the police boss said everybody would have to work unitedly in fighting out drugs from the country as the law- enforcers could not do it alone.
Terming the country’s legal system time-consuming, Nur Mohammad said due to loopholes in legal system, many of the listed drug traders and criminals came out from jail on bail.
“Now the time has come to rethink about the problem,” said the IGP, who recently earned ire of higher authorities for his comments about delays in proclamation of a proposed police ordinance.
Rapid Action Battalion Director General Hasan Mahmud Khandokar said RAB would take special security measures ahead of the polls so that criminals could not disrupt the environment of election.
“We’ll inform people of the country about it through media at a suitable time,” he said.
Earlier, people of different professions, including film-star Razzak and singer Fahmida Nabi, spoke on the occasion.
Source: The Bangladesh Today
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