When a person who is none other than a police officer is not safe in his bedroom and in the proximity of Rajarbagh police line at that, one need not be a criminologist to conclude that life of the common people in the city and elsewhere is now in grave peril. Actually no new incident of homicide is needed to establish the truth. Despite the fact that all of our home ministers always boasted of all time excellent law and order, people’s observation is fundamentally different: From their day to day experience people apprehend that any member of their community may be killed at any moment by any hired and professional assassins.

The murder of a Special Branch inspector and his wife on Wednesday night by unknown assailants allegedly with the active connivance of their daughter is the latest most sensational case of manslaughter. Thanks to the wide media coverage readers are already familiar with the incident.

Detailed narrative of the assassination, motives behind the gruesome bloodletting and killers involved are likely to unfold soon as police investigation is going on. But one thing is almost sure and a police officer is reported to have told the journalists that it is not possible on the part of a single person to kill the couple. It means that some others might have been involved in the double murder.

The motive behind the killing is still shrouded in mystery. But one thing is common in almost all media reports that the couple utterly disliked the lifestyle of their daughter and imposed restriction on her movement. The girl, it is suspected, might have hired professional killers to do the job for her. Such a probability brings us to the cruel reality that a section of criminals has taken killing as a lucrative business. Irrespective of whether the girl hired criminals or not, it is gathered from media reports from time to time that one can easily hire killers at cheaper rates if and when one feels it necessary.

Readers might have repeatedly heard about availability of professional slayers. But, so far our knowledge is concerned, no such criminals have ever been arrested during this long period. Do not the law enforcing and intelligence agencies have information about these career murderers? Law enforcers must be able to nab the criminals not only in individual cases but also should be able to detect the entire network of killers. If a teenage girl, in the present case, is able to establish contact with the criminals, it is supposed to be easier for intelligence agencies.

It is due to inability and inefficiency of the law enforcing agencies that crimes spread its poisonous tentacles to the police line. That illegal arms deal was conducted right from within the Rajarbagh police dormitories can be remembered in this connection. Today a police officer has been killed near the Rajarbagh police line, tomorrow such cases may take place within the very stronghold of the law enforces if they fail to arrest the rising trend of crimes.