Police reform

Police reform

68.8% of respondents supported including international human rights guidelines and formalising standard procedures in policing. Photo: UNB

71.5% support punishing police for using excessive force: Survey

People demand police free of political influence, corruption: Survey

People demand police free of political influence, corruption: Survey

Representational image. Photo: Rajib Dhar

Police Reform Commission for disregarding relatives' political identity in govt job verifications

Safar Raz Hossain. Illustration: TBS

Police to be reformed to make it time-befitting, pro-people: Commission chairman

The chief of UN in Bangladesh Gwyn Lewis paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at his Tejgaon office on 22 Sep. Photo: Courtesy

UN to support police, election reforms 

The reputation of the force took a significant hit during the civil demonstrations and violence that the country witnessed in July 2024. Photo: Rajib Dhar

Citizen police: A step to reform the police force

Protesters gather at the scene where George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was pinned down by a police officer kneeling on his neck before later dying in hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. May 26, 2020. Photo: Reuters

Key to reforming US policing rests with state legislatures