'HELP' app recorded violence against women to be considered as FIR: DMP Commissioner

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15 March, 2025, 03:10 pm

Last modified: 15 March, 2025, 05:55 pm

'HELP' app recorded violence against women to be considered as FIR: DMP Commissioner

BSS

15 March, 2025, 03:10 pm

Last modified: 15 March, 2025, 05:55 pm

File photo of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzat Ali. Photo: Collected

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sajjat Ali today said every incident of violence against women will be considered as a first information report (FIR) if these are recorded with the HELP App.

"If any incident of violence against women is recorded in the HELP App, it will be immediately treated as an FIR," he said.

The DMP commissioner made the remarks in an inauguration ceremony of the Help App introduced by the Bangladesh Broadcast Journalist Centre (BJC) at the Daily Star Bhaban.

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