Joint forces have arrested 441 people during a four-hour midnight operation across four police station areas in Dhaka as part of a crackdown on drugs, extortion, terrorism and teen gangs.
The operation began after 9pm on Tuesday in Mohammadpur, Pallabi, Adabor and Gendaria. Md Akhtar Hossain, deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Media and Public Relations Division, confirmed the operation on Wednesday noon.
Several hundred personnel from different law enforcement units, including the police, Detective Branch (DB), SWAT, Special Response Branch (SRB), Armed Police Battalion (APBn) and Dog Squad, took part in the coordinated raid.
During the operation, the forces seized a foreign-made pistol, a single-shooter gun, several locally made weapons, ammunition and a large quantity of drugs.
According to police, 202 people were detained in Pallabi, 59 in Mohammadpur, 45 in Adabor and 38 in Gendaria.
Following initial verification of the detainees’ information, those with specific pending cases will be sent to court, while others will be sentenced through mobile courts.
