Bangladesh: Police Inspector Gains 1.8 Million Facebook Followers Five Years After ICITAP Strategic Communications Training Began

On February 18, an ICITAP-mentored Bangladesh Police (BP) Inspector reached 1.8 million followers on Facebook. It has been five years since the BP Inspector received his first visit from an ICITAP Strategic Communications / Senior Law Enforcement Advisor on February 18, 2019. On that day, the BP Inspector created a new police Facebook page and began implementing the ongoing training and mentoring lessons learned from ICITAP. These included building public trust through community outreach events and publishing them effectively on social media before, during and after the events. Furthermore, he emphasizes Timely, Quality, Quantity, interactive information with Images (TQQI), including photos and videos, about daily and emergency police activities of service and sacrifice, and helping the public. His sincere messages often garner thousands of positive comments and hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, of views. His extraordinarily positive efforts and successes have helped Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) and prevent and solve crime in Bangladesh by increasing public trust and thus cooperation with the police. There have been immense challenges, yet OC Mohsin’s activities exceeded the training he was provided, and the student has become the teacher. His online efforts are routinely shown by ICITAP as examples to other police students of ICITAP Strategic Communications programs globally. These include international and national police conferences, and training with ICITAP Philippines and the ICITAP Engaging Multinational Police Women on Equality and Rights (EMPoWER) program. The Bangladesh Police Strategic Communications program was made possible through funding by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Counter Terrorism (CT). Click here for the Inspector’s Facebook page.