The law and order faultline in Ctg

It is the patent law enforcement failure to give the criminals a hot chase and catch them that has compounded the problem beyond measure. Citizens are feeling insecure as abductors are neatly executing their plans, with the police at best playing the role of a 'benign mediator'. The failure has clearly strengthened the abductors' resolve to repeat the crime.

Intelligence failure has also proven costly. The police must be equipped with the devices needed to track down the abductors in their hideouts. Basically we need especially trained policemen to operate in jungles where the kidnappers are usually holed up. The challenge is to outwit and outsmart them with better intelligence and greater mobility.

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Quite a few cases which had not been reported to the press earlier on, were settled through negotiations. These cases certainly gave the criminals the impression that people were not ready to fight it out by seeking legal aid.

This lapse could have encouraged criminals to expand their cycle of activity. So far their abduction forays have by and large been restricted to the Chittagong region. But is there any guarantee that we will not witness a countrywide proliferation of the malaise in the near future?

The high incidence of abduction in Chittagong for ransom money must be contained here and now, so that the tendency does not spill into other metropolises.