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Loyal cops favoured, the honest punished

AL asks for a commission to review 'wrong treatment' of staff

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The administration and law enforcement agencies have been made partisan, as the ruling alliance axed, transferred or deprived honest employees and favoured the loyal in the last four years, alleged the Awami (AL) League yesterday.
At a seminar in Jatiya Press Club, the AL also made a nine-point recom-
mendation that includes formation of a commission to review the 'wrong treatment' of employees.
“The activities of the administration and police reflect the violations of the constitution as a result of politicisation,” said AL presidium member Mohiuddin Khan while reading out the keynote styled, “The destruction of institutions:
Politicisation of police and administration”.
The administration and police now ignore the directives of the Supreme Court to maintain law and order, arrest criminals and prevent and eradicate crimes. Alamgir cited an example of not obeying the directives of Judge Hamidul Hoq and Judge Salma Masud on sections 54 and 167 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) on April 7, 2003.
He alleged filing a case with any police stations depends on the concerned district minister or local ruling party leaders as from the BNP-led government assumed office.
The nation in the last four years has incurred an estimated loss of Tk 2,048 crore for misuse of the Special Powers Act and politically motivated criminal cases filed with the lower courts.
Criminals have created a crime world under direct shelter from the political godfathers, he continued. The investigation process is politically influenced and in most of the cases the complainants become the victim of harassment instead of getting justice.
The government has also made futile attempts to compel the opposition leaders and activists to join the ruling party by filing false cases against them.
The prime minister has breached her oath as she failed to run the administration and police as per the responsibilities the constitution bestows on her, the paper added.
Expressing sympathy to the sacked and deprived civil servants, discussants at the seminar said a new service rule would be formulated to determine the job conditions to safeguard employees as servants of the state, not of the government.
Yesterday's AL recommendations include bringing reforms in the existing administrative tribunal, formulating new fully-fledged conduct rules for the civil servants, bringing reforms in the Criminal Procedure, Panel Code, PRB (Police Regulation Bengal Act, 1943) and Police Act, 1861, and Special Power Act, changing the laws to make the Public Service Commission (PSC) a truly independent body, making the official secrecy act up-to-date, and creating a central wing titled 'Career Planning' for the officers in the civil administration.
Listing the misrule of the incumbent government, former home minister Mohammad Nasim accused the alliance of eliminating the honest and efficient police officers. He assured the 'eliminated' cops of reinstatement if the AL is voted back to power.
AL presidium member Tofail Ahmed said the ruling coalition is doing everything to retain power as per its 'blueprint'.
A former additional inspector general (AIG) of police, AT Ahmedul Haq Chowdhury, said politicisation in the police administration started during the caretaker government before the last general elections.
He said a sub-inspector (SI) had made and submitted a list of AIGs, deputy inspector generals of police, superintendents of police and other lower officials to a particular 'Bhaban'.
The government took action against the listed cops by axing, transferring or
forcing them to resign, he added. Ten days after assuming power, the government made 40 cops OSD (officer on special duty) and fired or transferred 80 others.
He came down heavily on the reduced training programmes of police, saying this will make them unskilled. It is a conspiracy to send loyal cops in the field during the next general elections, he alleged.
The government appointed 815 SIs against a circular for 786 posts, although only 322 candidates passed the written test. The rest were given a grace mark of 20 overlooking the rules.
Abdul Bayes, former vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, said the government illegally removed three vice-chancellors soon after it came to power, destroying the image of the educational institutions.
Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, editor of the Bangladesh Observer, said the government has not only politicised the police, but also the president, chief election commissioner and the chief justice. Politicisation has engulfed even the media, he added.
Hassain Toufik Imam, former cabinet secretary, said the government has removed all the skilled, efficient and honest officials from the administration and appointed unskilled, incompatible and the corrupt, who are loyal to it.