Law enforcers or violators?
K Sayeed, On e-mail
I am a working woman and was on my way to the office on Friday morning at 10:00am on account of some urgent business. My microbus ,where I was the lone passenger, was stopped by a sergeant at Jhikatola bus stand. My driver got out and the sergeant ceased all the documents related to the vehicle. I did not quite understand what was happening until the driver came back and reported that the transport is being requisitioned by the police and was instructed to report to the Rajarbagh police station. I got down from the microbus and told the sergeant that I had to report to the office and the transport belonged to Emergency Health Service. The sergeant behaved in a very rude manner and reported that he had already written a slip of requisition and there was nothing else that he could do. However, he signalled my driver to park the transport under the shade of a tree and asked him to see him within some distance. While I was waiting inside the transport, the driver went to see the sergeant. After about ten minutes, the driver returned triumphantly and reported that he had paid a bribe of Tk 200 and got all the papers back. This is virtually the situation as far as enforcement of the law is concerned, for which we actually are paying from our hard earned income in the form of tax. It is a fact that crime has gone up lately but the truth is that the law enforcers are accomplices to the criminals . If my driver could pay Tk 200, then the criminals can pay two lakh, so why bother to create trouble for the paymasters? The government had requested the World Bank to provide technical assistance in a number of sectors. I think what is most important is to seek technical assistance for reorganising the law enforcement agencies. All fame and fortune is meaningless unless our life has value which applies also for unscrupulous public servants who are accumulating money through unfair means. The government should look into the matter.
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