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Subsequently, the Dhaka Nagar Paribahan franchise, comprising Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) and Trans Silva, commenced operations with their fleet of 50 existing buses on 26 December 2021 with a trial run on a 21-kilometre (13 mi) route between Ghatarchar and Kanchpur via Motijheel and Signboard.
A series of public protests in Bangladesh advocating improved road safety were held from 29 July to 10 August 2018. [1] They were sparked by the deaths of two high-school students in Dhaka struck by a bus operated by an unlicensed driver who was racing to collect passengers.
The Highway Police was established on 11 June 2005 by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. It can only investigate crimes under a few sections of Penal Code 1860 and the Motor Vehicle Ordinance, 1983. [5] The Highway Police has jurisdiction over 5,487 kilometre of national highways and 4,165 kilometre of local roads. [6]
In January 2010, Islam stopped a bus robbery along with his bodyguard and driver after he heard passengers screaming from the bus in Dhaka near Asad Gate. [9] In 2011, he was awarded the President Police Medal. [10] He was elected joint secretary of the Bangladesh Police Service Association. [11] He was promoted to superintendent of police in ...
The main training institution of the Bangladesh Police is the Bangladesh Police Academy, established in 1912 in Sardah. [citation needed] The Police Staff College, which trains officers from ASP to DIG in-service, was established in 2000 in Dhaka. [14] Bangladesh Police also maintains Police Training Centre (PTC) in Tangail, Rangpur, Khulna and ...
Privatisation and bus deregulation came into effect on 26 October 1986. [1] Local authorities were required to transfer their municipally-owned bus services to separate companies. Although most of these companies have since been privatised, with the exception of Lothian Buses in Edinburgh; a few other municipal bus companies remain today.
Twenty-seven police facilities were attacked and vandalized, and a hundred policemen were injured in these incidents, according to an official statement by the Bangladesh Police. [ 16 ] In Dhaka, unidentified individuals set fire to and damaged various vehicles, including cars, ambulances, motorcycles, and buses, at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib ...
Following the Indian Mutiny in 1857, the British reformed the colonial police force through the Police Report of 1860 to make it a more effective force. The current Bangladesh Police is based on the British colonial police administration. The head of Bangladesh Police is the Inspector General of Police. Then under the Inspector General of ...