Rab

By Firoz Mannan Uttara, Dhaka
15 January 2005, 18:00 PM
I am responding to the letter "Why Rab" published on 26th December. Firstly, as Mr. Kaushik mentioned "recruiting police" as one of his solutions, I don't think it is a good idea to do that before changing the corrupt recruitment system. Naturally, after getting the job most of them try to get the money (paid for getting the job) back by taking bribe. The big portion of our police force is already corrupt. And we don't want any more corrupt police.

Secondly, as he says, laws need to be formulated. The new laws like speedy trial have been introduced and many more are still coming up. Again, it is a really long process which might even take a couple of years. And during that time someone needs to ensure the safety of the general public.

Thirdly, he says there is a chance that Rab might get corrupt in future. In that case, whatever solution we come up with there is a chance that it may not work ultimately. And just because of that tiny possibility we should not refrain from taking any good step. Let's put the whole thing this way. If crime is a deadly disease then Rab would be the quick and useful medicine. If someone gets this disease and doctors start planning to invent a new medicine or some other better solution for years, instead of giving him the available medicine to save his life, and the patient dies, who will take the responsibility? Wouldn't it be wise if the doctors save the patient's life first and then plan about the better solutions?

Maybe, in future our police force and laws will be good enough so that people will rely on them. Then we will not need Rab any more. But before that happens people need safety which our police and law are still not capable of providing. Also, once our law and order gets back to what it is supposed to be, our image will be very positive to the outside world.

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I appreciate the intention of the writer as he wants to remove terrorism from the society. He also mentioned about the faulty judicial system. But so far Rab couldn't arrest the high ranking criminals who always used to stand behind the scene and are the main culprits in our society. To become successful, Rab must have the courage to catch those real terrorists and godfathers. Terrorism must be pulled out from the root, no one can finish this job until and unless those real criminals are put on trial.

We have no shortage of manpower so if the central machine of the terrorism cultivation is active there will be no shortage of the raw materials, I mean the godfathers can make the so called terrorists overnight to replace those who are being killed in crossfire now-a-days. It would be wise to know the real source of crime from the arrested criminals before they are killed. People are waiting for the day when there will be no godfathers in the society.

Then, we will not need any Rab to catch the so-called criminals; general people are enough to face them if those criminals are not backed by powerful godfathers.

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