Day and night police patrol is not seen in Barisal city. City residents claim that traffic policemen are seen during the day, but they are not seen on the roads after evening. Although there is no problem during the day, the city dwellers are insecure because there is no night patrol team. However, the police claim that their patrols are continuing.
Shahjahan, a resident of Kaunia Bengal Biscuit Factory in the city, said traffic police are seen during the day but are not available after evening. Moslem, a security guard at the bank booth on Sadar Road in the heart of the city, said that the police are not seen on Sadar Road at night. He said that he had to live in insecurity due to duty at the bank booth. Barisal Nagar has four police stations, Kotyali model, Kaunia, Airport and Bandar police stations, four police stations and one camp. Police patrol team works in two shifts every day from 8 am to 8 pm and from 8 pm to 8 am.
Also, from 7 am to 10 pm, the traffic policemen were on duty at different intersections of the city in two shifts. But after August 5, the whole picture changed. After the fall of the government, the policemen fled to safe havens fearing attacks. With the assurance of the government including the army, they started performing his duties from last August 12.
Mahadi Hasan, a resident of Amanatganj area, said that there is a fear of robbery while returning home from office at night as there are no police patrolling at night. Police are no longer seen on the streets. If the police do not patrol regularly, there is a risk of deterioration of the law and order situation. Theft will increase.
In this regard, Barisal Metropolitan Police Airport Police Station OC Lokman Hossain said that patrol duty was off for the first few days. Now regular patrolling is being done. The duty officer of Kaunia police station said that four patrol teams of their police station patrol regularly.
Barisal Metropolitan Police Bandar Police Station OC Biplab Kumar Mistry said that the police patrol is going on as before. But there are no patrols like before. So people don't see like past. He said that earlier five patrol teams were performing duty at Bandar police station. They used to perform duties in different alleys. Now the two patrols stay together. Kotyali Model Police Station OC Mostafizur Rahman claims that police patrolling is going on regularly.
