<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Home Adviser Lt. Gen. (Retd) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury today asked the police personnel to be people friendly in a real sense.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Police will really have to be people friendly. There is no chance to remain in black and white anymore," he said emerging from a view exchange meeting with Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) officials at its headquarters here this morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The home adviser said all want police to be a force of the people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The countrymen expect police to be people friendly. You (journalists) and I also expect so," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The home adviser asked the police force to work for regaining their past glory discharging duties sincerely by enhancing morale.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"You (journalists) know, the police have incurred a huge damage (during the mass uprising). So, obstacles are being seen in their works in many stages. I have asked them to revive their past glory after being motivated mentally," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also provided some directions to the police including rendering quick services to the people, stopping extortion, corruption and harassment of the masses and solving the traffic related problems.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mentioning that the people are going to police stations with various problems, he asked the police to solve their problems if possible and give them patience hearing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The home adviser also instructed the law enforcers to find the way out on how the traffic related problems can be improved.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He, as well, asked the police force to stop extortion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"If the extortion can be contained, the price of the commodities would be brought to tolerable level," he opined.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He ordered the police personnel to stop the bribery and corruption as the menaces have reached every step in the society.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">About random cases, the home adviser said the police are not filing the cases.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The cases are being filed by the commoners, he said, calling upon them to lodge cases against the real offenders as no innocent person is subjected to be harassment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It would require long time to conduct investigations, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the past, he said police filed such cases naming 10 persons and several hundred of persons without names.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But now, police are not filing such cases, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The home adviser again assured that none would be arrested without investigation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I have asked the DB (Detective Branch of police) not to arrest any innocent people rather to nab only the criminals," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Responding to another question about mob justice, he called upon all not to take law in own hands, referring to a recent incident happened in Jahangirnagar University.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"There is no scope to take law in own hands," he warned.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md. Mainul Islam and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md. Mainul Hassan were present at the view exchange meeting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>