Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Mainul Hassan recently (8 October) said particular security measures were taken the least bit 253 puja mandaps and immersion places below its jurisdiction to wait on the Durga Puja in a peaceable and festive components.
“Every of the Puja Mandap has been brought below particular security arrangements,” he said after inspecting the overall security arrangements at Dhakeshwari Temple in Dhaka.
He said they’ve also planned particular security arrangements for all 15 places the save the goddess Durga will seemingly be immersed.
Replying to a rely on, he said, “There are now not any security threats around Durga Puja this time. We don’t peer any possibility.”
Durga Puja, the supreme festival of the Hindu Community, will seemingly be held at 253 puja mandaps in the Dhaka Metropolitan space starting the next day to come (9 October).
Of those, the Dhaka South City Corporation has 131 pavilions, whereas the Dhaka North City Corporation has 122 mandaps.
The DMP commissioner said police would be stationed in each of the puja mandaps.
Apart from these, thana police would behavior patrol and verify posts surrounding the Puja mandaps below their jurisdictions, he said.
The DMP chief also said each of the mandaps were brought below high-powered CCTV protection, whereas there will seemingly be checkpoints at each mandap, collectively with archways and metal detectors for thorough screenings.
Volunteers, police in shocking garments and Ansar would also be deployed in and across the mandaps, he said.
He persisted that measures have also been taken to guarantee an uninterrupted power provide at puja mandaps alongside fireplace-distinguishing arrangements.
On the the same time, Mercurial Circulation Battalion (RAB) would proceed their traditional patrol and other security inspections surrounding the puja mandaps and temples, he said.
The DMP Commissioner said a very powerful traffic management would be in save in the DMP areas to guarantee soft traffic circulate throughout the Durga Puja.
“Now we have asked the authorities concerned to guarantee particular traffic management in the outdated city because the roads there are narrow,” he said.
Mainul said, the Durga Puja will end on Sunday (October 13) through immersion of the goddess Durga and 15 places were mounted in the DMP areas for the immersion this year.
“We would take particular security arrangements for the immersion rallies,” he said.
The DMP Commissioner asked all to dial the Nationwide Emergency Amount 999 in any need.
He asked all concerned to end your total work centered on the immersion of the Durga Puja by 7 in the night.
The DMP chief requested all now not to use firecrackers, potka (puny local bombs) and high sound machine throughout the immersion.
Requested in regards to the measures to arrest the fugitives alive to on the attacks on the student-folk circulate, he called upon all to lend a hand arrest the fugitives.
Replying to another quiz, the police commissioner said a correct task had been taken in the killings of 44 policemen throughout the circulate.
When asked about measures in opposition to the DMP personnel who fled after the political changeover, he said, “Instances were filed in opposition to quite a lot of them. We are attempting and detain them.”
