Bangladesh News

The government is thinking about forming campus police for maintaining internal security of the country’s higher educational institutions, as the recent violence at Dhaka University and backlash on other campuses worried the authorities.

The plan was discussed at the 10th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Law and Order at the home ministry on Wednesday.

“Unwarranted incidents on the Dhaka University campus on August 20 and the August 21-22 incidents at country’s other universities and places were discussed at the meeting,” says an official announcement.

The meeting was informed that a total of 74 policemen, including high officials, were injured during the three-day violence triggered by an August 20 incident on the DU campus.

Taking stock of the situation, the meeting expressed satisfaction at the utmost tolerance shown by police during the August 20-22 campus violence.

The fast-spreading agitation prompted government to close all universities as well as colleges in divisional cities for an indefinite period.

The meeting also discussed if industrial police could be introduced for maintaining law and order in the apparel factories.

It was told on behalf of the police that country’s law and order situation has improved except for the August 20-22 incidents.

The meeting also examined an option for setting up hawkers’ market on a limited scale in several areas of the city during Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr, without hampering movement of the pedestrians.

Chaired by Information and Law Adviser Mainul Hosein, the meeting was attended by Education Adviser Ayub Qaudri, the home secretary, IGP, DGs of Rab and Ansar and other high officials concerned.