Law enforcement agencies will reach any polling centre within five minutes if any untoward incident occurred on election day, said Rajshahi Divisional Commissioner ANM Bazlur Rashid on Wednesday.

ANM Bazlur said this while speaking at a press conference held at his office around 12pm over the overall preparations for the 13th National Parliamentary Election and referendum in the Rajshahi division.

“We have deployed law enforcers in such a way and are monitoring through technology that the possibility of any unwanted incident is minimal,” he said.

There are 39 parliamentary constituencies in the Rajshahi division with a total of 16,377,096 voters. There are 5,504 polling centres in the division, including 1,767 identified as important.

A total of 218 executive magistrates and 39 judicial magistrates will perform duties during the election.

Besides, 1,04,066 members of different law enforcement agencies have been deployed, including 10,000 army personnel, 4,123 BGB members, 13,796 range police, 2,405 Rajshahi Metropolitan Police personnel, 1,006 RAB members and 72,736 Ansar members.

On average, 2,668 law enforcers will be deployed in each constituency.

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To ensure voters’ security and transparency at polling centres and prevent untoward incidents, CCTV cameras have been installed at 5,266 centres and 2,318 body-worn cameras have been arranged, he added.

Rajshahi Range DIG Mohammad Shahjahan, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dr Md Zillur Rahman and officials of various government departments were present at the press conference.