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First Seven-hour Drive in City

Undercover teams nab 25 'criminals'

St aff Correspondent
The ninety-nine armed undercover teams comprising police, members of Detective Branch (DB), Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Rapid Actiori Team (RAT) arrested 25 alleged criminals in the first seven hours of their operation in the capital Thursday.
Fifty-nine teams with detectives and other police personnel carried out the operation in every ward of
the east and south zones of Dhaka from 4:00pm to 11:00pm.
The plainclothes police teams were asked to arrest killers, extortionists, listed criminals and car lifters and seize illegal arms,, drugs andstolenvehicles.
As many as 700 police, DB, Rab and Rat members are in the 99 teams. Each team consists of at least
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six personnel with two shotguns and an SMC. The 'call signs' in their walkie-talkie have been changed to keep their previous identity a secret, police sources said.
Police said 59 teams searched 575 vehicles, raided three garages and arrested 11 people. Three of them are accused in three cases and eight were arrested under Section 54 of the CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure).
Deputy Commissioner (DC) of the DB Farooq Ahmed supervised the operation.
Forty Rab teams along with policemen conducted operation in every ward in 10 police stations of the north and west zones from 4:00pm Thursday to 8:00am yesterday.
They arrested 14 alleged criminals. Three of them are accused in a case, four were held for taking drug, three under Section 54 of the CrPC and two under Dhaka Metropolitan Police Act.
Deputy Commissioner of Rab Mazharul Haq supervised the operation.
Besides, the joint forces of BDR, Armed Police Battalion and police are conducting block raids in 21 police stations of the city to nab criminals and recover illegal arms and drugs.
TVventy mobile courts in 20 police stations are also functioning to curb crimes.
The latest anticrime measures came amid law and order downslide underlined by a series of incidents including an attack on writer Humayun Azad, rape and murder of teacher Fatema Khanin Kahinoor, killing of businessman Rezaul Karim Selim and an attack on a woman sub-inspector.