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Caller ID system may help curb crime

SABRINA KARIM MURSHED
Caller identification mechanism in fixed line phones will help curb crime, especially kidnapping and extortion believe law enforcers and city dwellers.
Ransom, toll collection and issuance of threats over telephone has become so rampant in the city that it has made it increasingly necessary for the receivers to identify the caller's number.
"I had a phone call from an unknown person demanding a certain amount of money. He threatened to abduct my family members if I don't pay the amount," said a high official of a reputed private company.
A doctor living in Uttara received a similar anonymous call but the strategy was a bit different. The man on the
other side of the phone asked him to 'satisfy' the need of some youths he was going to send to the doctor's house.
"I contacted the local police station but the police officer I spoke to surprisingly said that I should listen to the caller," the doctor, not wishing to be named, told star City. "The police officer suggested that I should yield to the demand of the extortionists," he added.
However, the duty officer of Uttara police station dismissed such claims and said that they were regularly dealing with such complaints.
"We suggest people who are being harassed over phone to file complaints with Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) mentioning the time of the call. That enables the BTTB
to trace the caller's number," he said.
Not all the people who receive such calls come to the law enforcers, said Ashraful Huda, Commissioner of Police.
"With our own mechanism, we are able to track the criminals in almost all the cases when complaint is lodged with us. However, some people get scared and prefer to pay the money to the extortionists without even informing us," said Huda.
The police commissioner believed that introduction of caller line identification system will help them a lot in reducing such crimes where telephones are used as tools.
All the 1.6 lakh telephones installed in the city by Canadian Company Nortel Networks provide caller line identification protocol, (CLIP) system,
informed chairman of BTTB s.A.T.M. Badrul Haque.
The telephone exchanges of Mirpur, Gulshan, Uttara, Motijheel and Moghbazar are now providing the facility said Haque.
"May people are not aware of it but telephone subscribers of those exchanges can have the CLIP system free of any additional charge just by fixing a telephone set that has in-built system of displaying the caller's number," he said.
Earlier this year, the BTTB had planned to introduce CLIP system for all the other exchanges in the city but they could not implement it due to lack of response from international telecom equipment vendors, the chairman said.