DHAKA, Mar 10, 2025 (BSS) - The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has operated 667 patrol teams and 71 check posts in the last 24 hours and rounded up 235 individuals, including 27 dacoits, as part of its security arrangements across the city to ensure public safety, and law and order.   

According to the Crime Command and Control Center of DMP, 667 patrol teams of DMP performed duties in two shifts for public safety under its 50 police stations from 12:01am to 11:59pm on Sunday.

Out of them, 340 teams performed duties at night, while 327 teams during the day. 

The patrol teams include 479 mobile patrol teams, 73 foot patrol teams, and 115 motorcycle patrol teams. 

In addition, 71 police checkposts are operated by the DMP at various important and strategic locations to enhance security in the metropolitan area.

Along with the DMP, 14 Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) patrol teams (two shifts), 12 Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) patrol teams (three shifts) and 10 RAB patrol teams with the DMP are on duty at various crime-prone areas of the metropolis, and 20 checkposts are operated by the APBn, a specialized unit of the police. 

In the last 24 hours, 235 people involved in various crimes were arrested in eighty-three combing operations conducted in different areas of the city.

The arrestees included 27 robbers, 18 professional active muggers, four extortionists, nine thieves, 20 individuals wanted in previous cases, and 22 identified drug dealers.

In the operation, a foreign revolver, four rounds of bullets, four machetes, five knives, a switch gear, a dagger, a sewing range, four and a half annas worth of gold jewelry, a private car, a motorcycle, nine mobile phones and Taka 2,44,500 in cash were seized. 

In addition, the drugs recovered included 25 bottles of foreign liquor, 3.450kg of ganja, 484 pieces of Yaba and 5 grams of heroin. 

In the last 24 hours, 65 cases were registered with different police stations of DMP.