1.remark( মন্তব্য)
2.reportedly( প্রতিবেদন অনুসারে)
3.commits( করা, অংগীকার করা, সমর্পণ করা) : Do, make, rehash
4.responsibility ( দায়িত্ব, দায়িত্বশীলতা) : Duty, liability, obligation
5.offence( অপরাধ, লংঘন) : Crime, sin guilt
6.individual (ব্যাক্তি, ব্যাক্তিগত, স্বতন্ত্র) :separate, personal, isolate
7.offender( অপরাধী) : perpetrator, offender, criminal
8.in question (বিবেচনাধীন, বিচারাধীন) : pending, Under consideration or discussion
9.errant( বিপথগামী, অসভ্য) : savage, deviant, aberrant, mischievous
10.albeit ( যদিও, তথাপি)
11.handful( সামান্য পরিমান, অল্প পরিমান): few, smaller number
12.defiled( কলুষিত)
13.sap( ক্রমাগত হ্রাস পেতে থাকা,কাউকে দূর্বল করা অথবা কারো থেকে গুরুত্বপূর্ন গুন হরণ করা): To deplete or weaken gradually, to make someone weaker or take away strength or an important quality from someone, especially over a long period of time:
14.outfit ( দল)
15. function (কাজ, কর্তব্য) : Duty, obligation
16.collectively ( সামগ্রিক ভাবে)
17.culpable ( দন্ডনীয়, নিন্দনীয়, শাস্তির যোগ্য) : condemnable, opprobrious
18.absolve ( মুক্তি দান, ক্ষমা করা) : pardon, condone
19.breach( ফাঁকফোকর, ফাটল, লংঘন, খেলাপ) : Fracture, Violation
20.norm ( আদর্শ)
21.amounts to( কোন কিছুর সমকক্ষ হওয়া)to become worthwhile or successful, to be the equivalent of something
22.cognizable( জ্ঞানগম্য, বোধগম্য) : Comprehensible
23.malfunction( ঠিকমত কাজ না করা, অকার্যকর হওয়া)
24.wash its hand off( দায়িত্ব নিতে অস্বীকৃতি জানানো) : to refuse to take responsibility
25. leash( বন্ধন, শৃং্খল, বাধা)
26. bad apple( বাজে লোক, গোলযোগ সৃষ্টিকারী ব্যাক্তি) : a discontented, troublemaking, or dishonest person
27.indulge( চরিতার্থ, ইচ্ছাপূরণ) : to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one’s will
28.witnessed ( সাক্ষ্য হওয়া)
29.urge( তাড়না, প্রেরণা) : instigation, provoke
30.proactive( প্ররোচক)
এবার পড়ি
February 08, 2016
EDITORIAL
Did we hear you right Mr. IGP?
We had hoped not
We thought we had misread the comments of the inspector general of police, but double-checking a remark of his carried in this newspaper yesterday, we don’t think we did. The IGP’s statement, reportedly at a seminar in Sylhet on Saturday, that if a cop commits a crime, it’s his responsibility and that an individual’s offence is not the responsibility of the police department, is quite shocking. Though he added that if departmental investigation proves the accused’s guilt he will not hesitate to dismiss the offender, his previous statement leaves us confused.
A policeman is part of a force and his job is to provide safety and security to the people. The statement in question will send the wrong signal to its members, in particular to those errant ones, albeit a handful only, whose activities have defiled the image of the police as a whole and caused public confidence in them to sap.
Ensuring discipline in an organisation is a function of command of the heads of every department of that outfit. And we accept that while the organisation may not be held collectively culpable for the action of any of its members, it certainly cannot absolve itself of the responsibility for each and every action of theirs. Breach in the norm of behaviour, or actions that amounts to a cognizable offense, by members of police is perhaps a malfunction of the system either in terms of training, motivation or recruitment. And if the organisation chooses to wash its hands off the matter it will do so at the risk of giving leash to the bad apples of the organisation to indulge in more such crimes we have witnessed in the recent past. We urge the IGP to take a more proactive stance on discipline of his force.
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