RAJSHAHI, Dec 17, 2024 (BSS) - Around 33 valiant Freedom Fighters (FFs) police personnel and family members of 16 martyr police FFs were accorded reception as recognition to their laudable and heroic role in the Great War of Liberation of the country.
 
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) organised the reception ceremony at the police lines drill shed today to mark the Great Victory Day 2024.
 
RMP Commissioner Muhammad Abu Sufiyan attended and addressed the ceremony as the chief guest, while Deputy Commissioners Anirban Chakma, Ariful Haque and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee spoke as special guests.
 
They distributed crests and gifts among the freedom fighter police officers, members and other civilians on the occasion.
 
The meeting was told that the then DIG Mamun Mahmud and the then SP Shah Abdul Mazid were killed by Pakistani military on the initial stage of the war in Rajshahi.
 
In his remarks, RMP Commissioner Muhammad Abu Sufiyan said the country's people would never forget the sacrifice of police during the War of Liberation.
 
He said police personnel had built armed resistance against the first attack of the Pakistani military during the beginning of the war.
 
On March 26 in 1971, hundreds of policemen became martyred in Dhaka, he added.
 
He told the meeting that Shah Abdul Mazid joined as Superintendent of Police (SP) of Rajshahi on August 15, 1970.
 
On March 29, Pakistani military attempted to take control over the Rajshahi police lines. Then police led by the SP had resisted them. More than 50 policemen were martyred in the battle. Many Pakistani military men were also killed and injured.
 
On March 31, the Pakistani military forcibly took away SP Mazid from the banglow of Deputy Commissioner and since then he has remained missing.
 
Commissioner Biplob Talukder mentioned that the police administration is very much positive towards the best sons of the soil alongside improving their living and livelihood conditions.