Online Desk  :   Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has recommended the abolition of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to the government’s Police Reform Committee. BNP Vice-Chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed came up with the recommendation at a press briefing held in Gulshan on Tuesday. “Though the government’s police reform committee did not want recommendation from BNP, we submitted a proposal. Reform of this essential service of the state (police) is now the demand of time. In its recommendations, BNP has recommended the formation of a police commission.”

Maj Hafiz added, the recommendation highlights the need to form a police commission to provide proper guidance, advise and support to the police force. The chairman of the commission will be the chairman of the parliamentary committee on home affairs. A retired Supreme Court judge will serve as the chairman of the committee for the interim period. The government will issue regulations to determine the method of selecting members of the commission, scope of work, and term of office, BNP mentioned in the proposal.