No conflict between police, Rab
Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque yesterday said there might be some differences of opinion between the Rab and the police, but there is no conflict between them.
He was talking to journalists after inaugurating the newly constructed six-storey barrack of Range Reserve Force at Barisal Police Lines.
“We are proud of the Rab that it is an elite force. There is no major conflict [between the two forces]. Whatever has been reported in the media is unfortunate. It should not have been reported,” the IGP said.
The Rapid Action Battalion is a unit under the IGP like the Criminal Investigation Department and Special Branch. The Rab and the police are members of the same family and sometimes there might be some differences of opinion between the family members, but there is no conflict, he added.
All the units of the police, including the Rab, have been working together for a common goal of controlling law and order, curbing crimes and militancy, Shahidul said.
Senior police officials of Barisal Range and Barisal Metropolitan Police were present.
According to media reports, Benazir Ahmed, director general of Rab, on September 27 wrote to Senior Home Secretary Mozammel Haque Khan about “misunderstandings” between the two forces. The letter cited six such incidents.
Benazir complained to the home ministry about police excesses on Rab men and said the prevailing situation was so tense that it might go out of control soon.
Later, the police headquarters issued an 11-point directive to field-level policemen and Rab personnel, asking them to communicate more effectively and show respect to each other.
Police recently also contradicted a Rab claim that Sarwar Jahan alias Abdur Rahman, who died after jumping off a building during a Rab raid in Ashulia, was Shaykh Abu Ibrahim Al-Hanif, the chief of “Neo JMB”.
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