The Border Security Force (BSF) today said the Border Guards of Bangladesh (BGB) have agreed to 'simultaneous coordinated joint patrolling' to check trans-border crimes along the Indo-Bangla International border.
The Border Security Force (BSF) today said the Border Guards of Bangladesh (BGB) have agreed to 'simultaneous coordinated joint patrolling' to check trans-border crimes along the Indo-Bangla International border.
"We have identified as many as 68 patches in Meghalaya, which are vulnerable to various crimes, and a joint patrolling has been agreed by the BSF and BGB," BSF IG Meghalaya Frontier PK Dubey told reporters.
He said that joint patrolling which will be taken up both day and night will be reviewed after every six months as criminals keep on changing their modus operandi.
"We have also come up with a mechanism where our nodal officers from both sides will share whatever intelligent inputs we get about trans-border crimes and joint action will be taken by both the forces," he said.
The matter was signed in the form of a joint memorandum by the Director Generals of the two forces (BSF- BGB) during a recently concluded conference held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
On BGB request for joint investigation of crimes, he however, said this was turned down due to legal implication because this being a state subject and both border forces are not having any investigation powers because of the federal structure.
"We however said wherever heinous crimes are there we can jointly have spot verification to solve the crime but not investigation," he added.
On the menace of cattle smuggling to Bangladesh, the IG said that with reference to Meghalaya this is not a big issue because the number of cattle smuggled is very less as we have been able to check this to a great extent.
"However, we have sensitised the BGB to check and stop this menace," he said.
Issue of breaching of border fencing was also taken up during the meeting in view that criminals from both the countries managed to cut the fence and crossover from Bangladesh.
According to the BSF IG, there are limited cases of breaching of border fencing and after measures were taken this has stopped for last one month.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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