Home Advisor Lt Gen (retd) M Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday sought cooperation of the United Kingdom (UK) for police reforms to make it skilled, fair and people friendly.
"We have taken an initiative to reform police for building a capable, unbiased and people friendly force where UK can cooperate by providing necessary training and other supports", he said.
He told this to British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke when she paid courtesy call on him at his secretariat office. She said UK would provide needed support and that a UK expert team will visit Bangladesh next month.
They also discussed issues relating to mutual interests including combating terrorism, illegal migration, flood rehabilitation and Rohingya repatriation.
About investigation into enforced disappearances in Bangladesh during the previous regime, the home advisor said the government has formed a five member commission to unearth enforced disappearance of a good number of people, mostly opponents, reportedly by law enforcement agencies, during the immediate past government.
The High Commissioner laid importance on fair trial of the incidents and human rights violations that occurred in recent months to fulfill the expectations of Bangladeshi people.
Those who were involved with the incidents should be brought under the purview of speedy trial, she said.
The Home Advisor said that a United Nations fact finding mission arrived in Bangladesh.
Expressing her government's desire to extend all support to the interim government Sarah Cooke said the UK is working together with Bangladesh in the areas of combating terrorism. "We want to enhance mutual cooperation in this field in future", she added.
