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Stunts fail to impress
10/29/2005
RECENTLY, some sporadic actions of the police force have been noted. But to the truly seasoned observers the same is devoid of any meaning. It does not seem that the police are really changing for the better, comprehensively and on a sustainable basis. The appearance of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and its shining so soon in the public conception for its good work, threw a challenge at the police. They had to justify their existence by imitating the RAB and engaging in some RAB-like actions to try and salvage some image for themselves when it turned to rubble in the wake of the RAB's very successful operations.
Even some of these stunts of the police proved to be no better than gross misdeeds on their part such as the harassing of a manpower agency on the false suspicion of women trafficking . Other police actions fell far short of the RAB's performance but were given high profile publicity as if they had suddenly metamorphosed into a good force able to take on well the tasks entrusted to them. But nothing could be more misleading than the attempts to create, artificially, such an image of the police. For they remain, largely, as viciously corrupt and not dedicated to the true calling of their profession, as ever.
M A Aziz
Tejgaon, Dhaka.
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