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CID lacks explosion investigation ability

Only 3 inspectors have little training; department has no sophisticated equipment

SHARIFUL ISLAM
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the only agency in police department to deal with bomb blast incidents, has little capability to deal with postblast situation and carry out investigation as it lacks trained manpower and sophisticated equipment for the job.
In case of need, only three CID inspectors who had a mere 15-day training in US on post-blast situation are withdrawn from their regular duties and given the task to ascertain the nature of the explosives, bullets and splinters, CID sources said.
"When any such incident (bomb blast) takes place, we look at each other helplessly as we do not have the expertise and equipment to probe it," said a top CID officer seeking anonymity.
"We only have kits to take finger-
print and footprint and video camera to take snaps of the scene of occurrence to find out the nature of the explosives," he said.
When needed, the CID team takes assistance from the army and Department of Explosives to ascertain the nature of the explosives, bullets and splinters.
An official of Detective Branch of
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police said no headway could be made in almost all the bomb attacks as the CID is so poorly equipped for the job. If investigations into those incidents could be successfully completed, the culprits involved in the recent grisly grenade attack on the Awami League (AL) rally could be tracked down, he thought.
Since 2000, the government sends officers of the army, police, paramilitary BDR and ansars to US for a one and half-month training on post-blast situation. But no-one of the trained police officers are posted in the CID.
A police officer who received the training, said they do not have the expertise needed to investigate bomb or grenade attack incidents. He suggested formation of a 20-member special unit comprising brilliant police officers and sending them abroad for the highest level of training on 'pre- and post-explosion and criminal detection'.
The unit will look into not only post-blast situation, it will also go into the roots or sources of the explosives, track down the culprits and find out their targets, he added.
"The understaffed and poorly equipped and trained CID explosion unit is actually not competent to handle deal with the perceived or actual threats of bomb attacks in the country," the official noted.
He however said if police had intelligence reports on the gangs carrying out bomb or grenade attacks, they could greatly prevent recurrence of such incidents.
Since March 1999, 16 major bomb or grenade attacks have been carried out in different places of the country, but police could only detect the gang members involved in the bomb attack at a Udichi function in Jessore. Investigators could not detect the culprits nor sources of the explosives even two to three years into the other incidents.