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DHAKA: Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque has admitted that they failed to uproot the militancy and the illegal drugs during his five years of his duty as the IGP.
He said this while replying to a question of journalists at a press conference at the police headquarters in the city on Saturday (January 06). The press conference was arranged on the occasion of the Police Week 2018.
AKM Shahidul Hoque said, “We failed to uproot the militancy and the drugs, as the two are addiction.”
He said that the major problem of drug is Yaba. It enters Bangladesh through the Cox’s Bazar border which is a very big border.
The IGP commented that awareness has to be increased in various sections, including the family and the society, against the drug and the militancy.
BDST: 1855 HRS, JAN 06, 2018
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