WELCOME TO

PRESENTATION

Presentation By

Md. Rezaul Karim

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LL.B.(Hons); 40th Batch

Department of Law

University of Dhaka

BANGLADESH

POLICE SYSTEM

শঙৃ্খলা নিরাপত্তা প্রগনি

History

AncientPeriod:Orthoshastra, Ramayana, Mahabharata : conducting surveillance over the activities of ministers, civil, and military officials

Manu said, “People having good knowledge of local people should be appointed as police, who will better administer and order situation.”

Medieval Period: In Mughal period,

1. village panchayat (Rural area)

2.Kotwali System (Urban area)

Kotwal emerged as an institution and was effective in maintaining the law and order in cities, and was implemented in Dhaka.

Kotwal System:Present day commissioner of police

Dispose of many functions of modern police

Night patrolling

Surveillance over visitors, spies and migrants

Arrest criminals

Control crime

King’s principal spy, chief intelligence officer

But Police was-

So powerful

Abuse power

Take bribe

Torture common people

Oppressive, ruthless

Arbitrary

BRITISH PERIOD

Crime control and maintain order was not formost task of police

Got power to collect rent revenue

Set up police force to help the collector to extract revenue

Widely practised torture when extracting land revenue

Torture became an official practice of police

Lord Cornwallis

Introduce new police system in 1792

Darogha post was created responsible to District Judge

This system failed.

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CHARLES NAPIER(1843)

Inspector General of Police was the chief of the whole province

SP was the chief of a district

Govt. had the responsibility of law and order situation

Introduced Irish constabulary model police

Established separate police department

This model provides the basic structure of Bangladesh police

COMMISSIONS

To search the causes of police torture, British Govt. Formed three commission in different time –

The Torture Commission,1854

The Police Commission, 1860

The Fraser Commission, 1902

After controlling the Sepoys Mutiny in 1857, British govt. directly took the governing power of Indian Subcontinent and enacted some laws and regulations

on the basis of recommendations of these commissions

ACTS PROMULGATED BY THE

BRITISH

The Police Act, 1861

The Indian Penal Code, 1861

The Chowkidar Act, 1870

The Evidence Act, 1872

The Criminal Procedure Code, 1898

The Police Regulation of Bengal, 1943

BANGLADESH PERIOD

After partition in 1947, Police was functioning on

the name of East Pakistan Police. Pakistan Rulers

were not sincere to reform police.

Bangladesh came into existence in 1971.

According to article 152 of Bangladesh

Constitution, Police is a disciplined force.

GENERAL HIERARCHY OF

BANGLADESH POLICE

RANGES OF POLICE

1 Dhaka Range

2 Chittagong Range

3 Khulna Range

4 Rajshahi Range

5 Sylhet Range

6 Barisal Range

7 Rangpur Range

Another two Police Ranges are:

8 Railway Range

9 Highway Range

UNITS OF POLICE

Range Police Police Range Police district-64 Circle-126 Thana (Police Station)-516 Investigation Centre (IC) / Police Out-Post / Police Camp

Metropolitan Police Division Zone-23 Thana (Police Station)-84 Town Out-Post / Police Camp

ADMINISTRATION OF BD POLICE

Bangladesh Police has its own administrative

setup in both urban and rural areas.

In 64 Districts, Police has three tier

administrations under the authority of –

SP

ASP (circle)

OC (officer in charge of the police station)

METROPOLITAN POLICE UNITS

1 Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)- 1976

2 Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP)-1978

3 Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP)-1985

4 Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP)-1992

5 Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP)

6 Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP)

BRANCHES OF BD POLICE Range and District Police

Detective Branch (DB)

Tourist Police

Detective Branch (DB)Police

Traffic Police

Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

Railway Police (GRP)

Highway Police

Industrial Police

Armed Police Battalion (APBn)

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)

River Police

SWAT

Special Branch (SB)

Immigration Police

Industrial Police

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI)

Special Security and Protection Battalion (SPBn)

FUNCTIONS OF POLICE

Preventive Functions

Investigations

Interrogations

Search and Seizure

Inquiry and Report on Suicide and Unnatural

Death

Functions as Prosecutor

PREVENTIVE FUNCTIONS OF POLICE

Prevent misdeeds arresting suspected criminals

Arrests law violators and bring them before the court

Section 149 to 153 of CrPC elaborate preventive actions of police

Section 54 empowers to arrest a person on suspicion

Thus can prevent the commission of any cognizable offence

FUNCTIONS OF INVESTIGATIONS

Police is the principal state agency to investigate criminal activities

Sections 154 to 176 of CrPC empower police to investigate any case

Under srction 60 & 61 of CrPC , police take the arrestee before a Magistrate

After filing an FIR, police immediately investigate

Police can seek remand to complete investigation

After investigation police serve ‘Charge-sheet’ or ‘Final Report’

INTERROGATION BY POLICE

For investigation Police can keep a person detained for 24 hours, if remand granted, for highest 15 days(s/167).

S/161(2) provides directions should be followed by Police when investigation

Section 25 of the Evidence Act,1872 provides safeguards to a person interrogative by Police

Article 35(4) provides safeguards to an arrestee

SEARCH AND SEIZURE BY POLICE

Sections 96, 105 of CrPC deal with the procedures how a

search should be conducted

May search with or without warrant

Usually a Magistrate issue a search warrant mentioning some

guidelines

Search should be made in day time in the presence two

independent witnesses of the locality

If illegal search-

1. Civil or Criminal action may be filed against the police

2. May result in acquittal of the accused

Given many authorities to Make search,Order production of

documents,seize any suspicious property, call witness to attend in

the court,

INQUIRY AND REPORT ON SUICIDE AND

UNNATURAL DEATH

On receipt any information of death by suicide,

killed by another or suspicious death Police shall

immediately inform the nearest Magistrate

Shall Report on wounds, fractures, marks of

injury,

If any doubt, the police officer shall forward the

body to the nearest Civil Surgeon to be examined

FUNCTIONS AS PROSECUTOR

When any crime has been committed, the

responsibility lies with the state to bring the

culprits before a court

On behalf of the state police investigates the case

Police also helps the Public Prosecutor to conduct

the case

Actually their collaboration with each other may

come out successfully in redressing a crime

DILEMMA OF RAB

The Rapid Action Battalion Ordinance, 1979

RAB is a combination of following forces-

Army

Navy

Air Force

Police

Bangladesh Boarder Guard

Ansar

After the formation, RAB was praised for controlling crime.

But, very soon it started extrajudicial killing

It is a clear violation of all national and international law

So RAB has turned itself as a Frankenstien and Delimma

Questions…???

Thanks To Everybody

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