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The New Nation - Bangladesh
28 May 2007
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Where reforms are urgent
Bangladesh : A SURVEY conducted some time ago among a representative cross-section of citizens in 2,400 households in four main cities --Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna -- to learn about how people felt about essential services came up with a disquieting response in relation to the police and the judiciary. According to the survey, policemen got the poorest marks as less than two per cent of all respondent households in the survey expressed satisfaction with their services. Eight percent only were satisfied with the judicial services. The survey results are nothing startling because a similar one conducted earlier produced an identical response.
The activities of the police and the judiciary involve two very important areas of governance. Devoted and innovative policing, backed up by an efficient and result-oriented legal system, are acutely necessary to free the people and the economy from the problems they face in relation to both of these vital institutions of governance. The present caretaker government is attempting reforms in relation to the police. But the reforms need to be comprehensive to improve the efficiency of the police force in all respects. The effectiveness of the police must be increased by addressing their deficiencies in different areas such as unresponsiveness to people's call for help, lack of integrity of some policemen; creating a reward structure for good policing and swift penalty for their unscrupulousness.
Over the years loyalists of the major political parties gained entry into the police force. The recruitment process of the police must be made such that they can never again be utilised by any political quarter. The functioning of the police should be made neutral in the discharge of their duties. We are having a very good opportunity under the present caretaker government to change the composition and attitude of the police force so that no party government can use the force again for the fulfilment of narrow coterie interests. Reforms to this end must be effected by the incumbent government.
In respect of the judiciary, the tasks list would include attending to the charges that corrupt elements sometimes hold sway in the lower judiciary. Specially credible allegations are there that the neutrality, competence and integrity of the highest courts of the land, the High Court and the Supreme Court, have been compromised by the appointment of judges to these court during the last two decades under political considerations by the ruling parties. There could be a no worse development than this because the highest courts are looked upon as the resolute custodians of the rule of law and justice. If individuals lacking in integrity and efficiency can find so easy access to the highest courts of the land to preside over their affairs, then the whole purpose of law, morality and, more significantly, the attainment of justice by its seekers, gets very frustrated and defeated. The present government has been presented with an unique opportunity to deep cleanse the judiciary in these respects.
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