TOUSIF KAIUM

Police officials last night placed a series of demands before Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed, including increasing the number of emergency hotline 999 call-takers, modernising forensic laboratories, and procuring new vehicles for the force.

The demands were raised during a conference between senior police officials and the minister at the Rajarbagh Police Lines auditorium in the capital, organised as part of Police Week 2026.

Several senior police officials who attended the closed-door meeting confirmed the matter to The Daily Star.

A deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, requesting anonymity, said the force currently receives around 25,000 calls daily through the national emergency service hotline 999, while only about 100 personnel are assigned to take the calls.

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