Police do not kill for money: Benazir Ahmed

Dhaka City police have rejected allegations that they were bribed to kill two men in the capital.

Two suspected muggers were killed in an alleged encounter at Motijheel on Sunday.

Police claimed the two were marked criminals but their families said their rivals paid the police to kill them.

But Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Benazir Ahmed said the allegation was “baseless”.

Several officers of elite police unit RAB-11 have been accused of abducting and killing seven men in Narayanganj in April.

Their relatives claimed the officials took Tk 60 million in bribe to carry out the crime.

Three RAB-11 officers, including then the commander of RAB-11 Tarek Sayeed Mohammad, have been sent on forced retirement after the allegations were raised.

DMP Commissioner Ahmed, without referring to RAB, said, “We (police) are not contract killers.”

As for the allegations by the families, the DMP chief said, “It is natural for them to make such claims as they depend on the criminals’ income.”

Defending Sunday's police actions, he said the law enforcers could not sit idle in the face of rampaging criminals.

“Police will do everything necessary to protect the people and their property,” Ahmed told the media on Monday.