The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has worked out its security arrangement for the celebrations of Eid-ul-Azha, which falls on Wednesday.
The police will conduct drives to remove illegal cattle markets set up in some city places, the DMP commissioner, Benazir Ahmed, said.
The Dhaka City Corporation has set up 21 temporary cattle markets and the authorities also set up camps in the markets to check extortion and other untoward incidents, the DMP chief said at a briefing at the DMP headquarters on Thursday on measures taken up to keep law and order during Eid-ul-Azha.
Plainclothes policemen will also be deployed alongside the uniformed lawmen around the temporary hide markets, he said adding that they would take all out measures to curb extortion in the city cattle markets.
He said more than 10,000 lawmen had been deployed in the city to check crimes, especially involving in hide trade.
Lawmen will also be deployed at shopping centres, bus and launch terminals, railway stations and temporary cattle markets in the city, the police official said.
He said the authorities had planned a three-phase security for the capital.
The first phase security plan, put in place on Thursday, will continue till Wednesday; the second phase security will be put in place on Eid day and the third phase will be in place for the next seven days.
‘Lawmen will keep vigil mainly around the National Eidgah, mosques, recreational facilities and cinemas so that no untoward incidents could take place,’ Benazir said.
The law enforcers will also be kept on alert around the shopping centres and apartments and in alleys as many of the city residents would leave the capital to celebrate Eid outside the capital.
He said they had held meetings with the superintendents of police of three bordering districts and the deputy inspector general of the Dhaka police range on issues of traffic and transport of sacrificial animals.
He said the authorities had selected some points for trading in raw hide so that policemen could be deployed in the points.
