Crime and corruption
It is praiseworthy that the government is buying cellular and land phone interceptors for Rab to combat crime more efficiently and the home ministry is going to pursue an amendment to the existing Telecom Act 2001 to remove legal barriers in phone tapping. These steps will obviously help Rab to eliminate the criminals from the society. But, as we see when a customer buys a cellular phone or SIM or RIM card, he has to submit some necessary information with photograph of the customer which are never certified by any government agency. So, it will be a step ahead move in combating crime, if necessary measures can be taken to ensure proof of three essential components of identity viz. Name, Address and Profession by Rab. The general people now feel that Bangladesh is almost free from criminals, muggers, terrorists and extortionists due to the prompt actions of Rab but not from the file-criminals , that is, the elements responsible for the poor development of the country.
An Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been set up to combat such corruption. But ACC also needs ultra-sophisticated devices like cellular and land phone interceptors allocated for Rab, micro-video recorder, micro-voice recorder, voice trackers, and personal electronic trackers which are used by anti-crime agencies in different developed countries. If the government takes necessary steps to allocate those kinds of devices with training for the ACC staff, Bangladesh will soon be free from corruption.
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