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The case example of Bangladesh exemplifies many of the challenges that we have been speaking about this far with respect to policing in the developing world. The Bangladesh National Police is a very large force that is very strapped for necessary resources to be able to effectively police – both within the large urban center of cities like Dhaka to the very remote villages characteristic of the countryside. Bangladesh is a country characterized by both extreme poverty and high levels of corruption on the part of its police and other government services.
This chapter is adapted and abridged from H. Grant, S. O’Reilly, and S. Strobl (2019, forthcoming). “The Role of Legitimacy in Police Reform and Effectiveness: A Case Study on the Bangladesh National Police” in Das, and D. Petersen (eds). Proceedings from the International Police Executive Symposium.
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Grant, H.B., O’Reilly, S., Strobl, S. (2018). The Not So Exemplary Example – Bangladesh National Police. In: Police Integrity in the Developing World. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00413-2_6
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