LADY COPS IN BANGLADESH

Bangladesh Police has introduced a special intelligence branch comprised of only women. Special Women Police Contingent (SWPC) deals with criminal activities by women, which have been on the rise. The police department introduced the new branch recently with a view to curbing sex trade, drug peddling, and trafficking of women and children. According to police sources, women are being used for trafficking other women and children, drug peddling, smuggling, and for swindling people, as crime lords feel safer to employ women for those jobs since traditionally they raise less suspicion. Director General of the Directorate of Narcotics Control (DNC) Humayun Kabir said around one lakh people are engaged in illegal drug trade, 40 per cent of whom are women. SWPC has been applying various intelligence tactics to infiltrate the world of women criminals, AC Sadira Khatun, chief of SWPC said. The newly set-up branch of female sleuths was already successful in unearthing evidence in several cases and in arresting a number of criminals.