Police return to streets to control traffic, law and order

After a work abstention for a week, members of the police have started to return to their workplaces following a call from the home affairs adviser of the interim government.

Some policemen seemed very cheerful and ecstatic after joining the office.

“Where would you stay? This is my work and identity, so to be here again is a blessing too,” a constable said.

Ariful Islam Rony, assistant Commissioner of Mohakhali Traffic zone, told TBS that his office was vandalised and it has not been fixed yet.

“But we’re back. It will not be easy to run the office under open sky but we’re here,” he added.

There were attacks on police stations all over the country following the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Since then, police members were abstaining from work citing safety concerns.

Yesterday, Home Affairs Adviser Brigadier General (Retd) M Sakhawat Hussain asked police to return to their work stations within Thursday, saying that those who won’t come back to work by this deadline will be identified as fugitives and unwilling to join work.

Hearing this warning, police members withdrew their work abstention and announced to join work from today (12 August).