The local administration has decided to bring Cox’s Bazar district town under CCTV surveillance to ensure tourists’ safety. The decision came from a views-exchange meeting, held at Tourist Police’s Cox’s Bazar Regional Office on Tuesday evening. Abul Kalam Siddique, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Tourist Police, said the initiative has been taken to curb crime in the area. It will also help identify and arrest the criminals, he said. 2 ‘fake Rab members’ arrested in Cox’s Bazar over raping tourist Besides, he also urged owners of hotels and motels located in the district town not to rent out hotel rooms without national identity cards. Issuing a warning, the DIG of Tourist Police said legal action will be taken against owners of hotel and motels if they are found involved in violating the order. Missing tourist found dead in Sylhet’s Sada Pathor area Additional DIG of Tourist Police Bidhan Tripura, Superintendent of Cox’s Bazar Police Mahfuzul Islam, President of Cox’s Bazar Hotel Owners Association Abul Kashem Shikdar and others were present at the meeting.    

Tourist police early today arrested a man from Chattogram city after the bodies of his wife and daughter were found in a Cox’s Bazar hotel room on Friday noon. The arrestee is Dulal Biswas from Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram. Shaheen, an additional SP of Cox’s Bazar Tourist Police, said Dulal went into hiding soon after the bodies of his wife and daughter were found, and police arrested him from Chattogram city around 12am today. Dulal is being interrogated, he said, adding that legal actions will be taken in this regard later. Whereabouts of his two sons are not known yet, he said. Earlier on Friday afternoon, police recovered the bodies of 35-year-old Suma Dey and her two-year-old daughter from Hotel Sea Alif in Cox’s Bazar. Read more: Mother, daughter found dead at Cox's Bazar hotel Police said the couple booked a room at the hotel on February 14 with their two sons and a daughter. A hotel employee saw the door of the room open and found the bodies of the mother and daughter on the floor. Later, police recovered the bodies from the room after getting a call from the hotel.

Tourist Police have arrested another accused in the case over the gang rape of a woman in Cox’s Bazar. Esrafil Huda Joy was arrested from Chakaria Bus stand area of Cox’ Bazar on Tuesday morning, said Additional DIG of Tourist Police of Chattogram division Mohammad Moslemuddin. Read: Female tourist in Cox’s Bazar was gang raped for extortion money: Rab So far, six people have been arrested in this connection. Police will produce Esrafil Huda Joy before the court on Wednesday and seek remand for him, said Moslemuddin. He said process is going on for bringing Ashiqul Islam Ashiq, the prime accused in the case arrested by the Rab in Madaripur, from Dhaka to Cox's Bazar. Ashiqul Islam Ashiq was arrested from Madaripur district  on Sunday night. Cox’s Bazar Tourist Police arrested three more accused in the case- Rezaul Karim Sahabuddin, 25, Mehedi Hasan, 21, and Mamunur Rashid, 28, from different areas in Cox’s Bazar district  on Sunday morning. On Monday, a court in Chattogram placed the three accused on a 2-day remand each. On Saturday, Riaz Uddin Chhotan, manager of a hotel that was one of two locations where the woman was raped, was arrested and remanded for four days. On December 24, the court recorded the victim’s statement, said inspector Ruhul Amin, investigation officer in the case. Read:Cox's Bazar gang rape: 3 more arrested, although not prime accused On December 23, the woman’s husband filed the case under the Prevention of Women & Children Repression Act at Cox's Bazar Sadar Model Police Station accusing seven people. On December 22, the 22-year-old woman was taken to Zia Guest Inn and there the three accused again took turns to rape her for hours following an altercation with her husband. They released her in the early hours on the following day and allegedly threatened to kill her family if she discloses the matter to anyone.

Tourism industry has greart potentials to develop in Bangladesh, Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed said on Thursday. He was addressing as the chief guest at a seminar held at a local hotel in Cox's Bazar. The seminar was organised on the last day of the four-day colorful program to mark the 8th founding anniversary of the tourist police. Chairman of the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management of Kushtia Islamic University Prof Dr Md Mahbubul Arefin presented the keynote address at the seminar. Director General of Bangla Academy Mohammad Nurul Huda, Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh Tourism Board Jabed Ahmed and Vice Chancellor of Cox's Bazar International University Prof Dr Golam Kibria Bhuiyan were present as special guests in the seminar chaired by DIG of the Tourist Police Murshedul Anwar Khan. Among others, senior police officers, tour operators and city dignitaries also attended the programme. READ: IGP urges the rich to help the Covid-hit poor people In his speech, the IGP said Bangladesh has beautiful natural environment, natural diversity and natural resources. Saint Martin's Island is such a beautiful place to visit. But tourists are discouraged from going there. “We think that we need to make sure that the natural environment of Saint Martin, the natural resources are not harmed by tourists. This is not to discourage tourists,” he added. The top official of the Police force said that since the formation of Tourist Police, it has been working tirelessly for the last eight years to provide international standard security to tourists and to develop the tourism sector. Besides, tourists have been able to travel to different tourist spots of the country safely after its inception. READ: Strictly maintain health rules during shopping: IGP It is to be mentioned that on the occasion of the 8th founding anniversary of the Tourist Police, a colorful program had been organized in Cox's Bazar from November 8.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed on Tuesday directed the officials of tourist police to turn the tourism industry one of the major earning sources of foreign exchange by popularising it.