ORGANIZED CRIME AND COUNTERMEASURES IN BANGLADESH - A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY (FROM UNAFEI REPORT FOR 1992 AND RESOURCE MATERIAL SERIES NO. 43, 1993, P 65-75, TAKASHI WATANABE, ED., SEE NCJ-146381)

• NCJ Number: 146382
• Author(s): M E Huq
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 11 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: Japan

Annotation

This is a report on crime in Bangladesh and how the country is trying to cope.

Abstract

The outstanding problem of the Bangladesh police is maintenance of public order and internal security. The total strength of the Police Department is 80,348, which includes operators, drivers and other auxiliary hands. The Department is required to man 144,398 square kilometers of densely populated underdeveloped country with repeated natural scourge. There is a table of criminal incidence during the last five years in major categories like Dacoity, Robbery, Burglary, Theft, Murder, and Riot. In addition to the conventional crimes, certain new phenomena are gradually gaining ground: juvenile crimes, crimes against women, organized gangs trading in women and children, smuggling, violence, terrorism. Crime is gradually becoming more and more transnational, regional, multinational and international. Drug-related illegal activities exemplify the internationalization of crime. The degree to which the Police succeed in fighting crime domestically is more and more the function of how successful they are in fighting crime internationally. In addition to the table already mentioned, there are nine others.