| dc.description.abstract | This study aims to explore the various issues and challenges in the criminal justice system
of Bangladesh, particularly what challenges investigating officers face before, during and
after investigation regarding four types of cases. They are crime against person (murder),
crime against property violence against women (rape), transnational crime (cybercrime).
As a crucial arm of law enforcement, the police investigation processes face numerous
obstacles, including workload, insufficient training, poor inter-agency coordination, long
working hours, and strained relations with the community and in the process of
investigation in the criminal justice system. The research seeks to identify the issues of
police investigation in the broader context of crime investigation, submitting the report
and ensuring the justice processes. This research is based on empirical study which has
also explored the manifold challenges in the process of the criminal justice system in
Bangladesh. To achieve this, the study adopts a mixed method approach, utilizing surveys
and KII to gather diverse perspectives from 400 law enforcement officers, 50 public
prosecutors, 30 judges, criminal justice experts, and 40 complainants/victims and 6 Key
Informant Interview (KII). Surveys have been conducted among the police officers of
different units involved in police investigation to collect information about the issues and
challenges before, during and after investigation. The survey information outlines that
police are heavily overloaded with excessive work and they are not getting expert opinion
on time –DNA, medical report, viscera report, contamination of crime-scene by public
and media, lack of training, lack of logistics and technological support, Internal &
External pressure, practices filing false case, lack of cooperation from witness and
victims, lack of women police etc. Interviews with judges and experts have also given
insights about the manifold issues in the criminal justice system in Bangladesh. | en_US |
