BGB Director General (DG) Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam announced this at a press conference held at the BGB headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, around 12pm on Monday. The BGB DG further said: "During the election time, our manpower decreases as we have to help the law enforcement agencies to uphold law and order within the country. Because of this, we have asked for the cooperation of BSF and Myanmar’s BGP to maintain security in the border areas." "BGB has set up 23,520 awareness programs along the border areas with that objective in mind," he said. "We have increased manpower, reinforced patrolling, built coordination with BSF and BGP, in the risk-prone areas," Shafeenul said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 10, 2018 09:53 UTC