DHAKA, Dec 15, 2024 (BSS) - Home Affairs Adviser Lt. Gen. (retd.) M Jahangir Alam Chowdhury today asked the police forces to intensify their patrolling to check all sorts of criminal activities especially robbery in the capital.

“Most of the criminal activities like snatching and robberies are used to happen at the end of the night . . .So, the police forces have been instructed to increase their patrolling at dead of night,” he told journalists here this afternoon.

The home adviser said this emerging from the 5th meeting of the advisory council committee on ‘the law and order’ at the conference room of the Ministry of Home Affairs here.

Responding to a query, the adviser said the law and order situation has to be improved at any cost across the country and necessary steps to be taken to reduce the robbery to zero level.

In this connection, he said necessary steps have been taken to ensure that everyone can celebrate the Victory Day on December 16 in a festive mood without any disturbance and under flawless security.  

Referring to holding of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregations, Jahangir Chowdhury said there would be another meeting with two factions of Tablig Jamaat (Saad and Jobair groups) regarding Biswa Ijtema slated for December 18.

The adviser said the Biswa Ijtema will be held in the same way as the Ijtema was held last time.

Apart from this, matters relating to improvement of law and order , ensuring fullproof security ahead of the Biswa Ijtema, the Victory Day, Christmas Day and December 31 Night celebrations as well as drive against illegal arms and drug abuses were discussed prominently in the meeting.

Members of the advisory council on law and order attended the meeting with the home adviser in the chair.