Police won’t carry deadly weapons: Home Adviser 

Home Adviser Lt. Gen. (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said that police will not carry deadly weapons.

The Home Adviser said this after attending the 9th meeting of the advisory committee on law and order at the ministry's conference room at the Secretariat on Monday.

“We have decided that no lethal weapons will be provided to the police force. Only the personnel of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) will be entitled to use lethal weapons,” he said.

Replying to a question about the timeframe for implementing the decision, he said, “We have just made the decision. It will take time.”

He also said that a committee, headed by Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser on Home Affairs Md. Khuda Baksh Chowdhury, has been formed to look into the matter.

The committee will also examine some other related issues, he added, without providing further details.