BGB acquires all-terrain vehicles to combat cross-border crime

[The Ronin]

ATVs are well suited for navigation on muddy, narrow roads, sandy pastures, various reservoirs including canals, hilly roads, and any inaccessible road. They can also be dropped from helicopters for use in special operations due to their light weight

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has acquired all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) to crack down on cross-border crime by carrying out quick and effective patrols.

Cross-border crimes include human trafficking, border killing, and smuggling of drugs, weapons, explosives, etc from neighboring countries.

BGB’s Public Relations Officer Md Shariful Islam confirmed the matter in a press release on Thursday and said that the vehicles were provided to the BGB with sincere desire and direct direction from the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The press release said that 328 kilometres out of the 4,427 kilometres of border area with India and Myanmar has been particularly identified as risky. The BGB has taken steps to establish and expand “Smart Digital Surveillance and Tactical Border Response Systems” in these particularly high-risk and sensitive border areas, to provide impeccable security, surveillance and counter-international crime.

Surveillance systems have already been set up in the 23 kilometre area of Putkhali in Jessore district and in the Teknaf border in Cox's Bazar district. They are also at the last stage of installation in the 45 kilometre area in the Teknaf border, the 15 kilometre area of Hagania border in Naogaon district, the 15 kilometre area between Hili and Kaya in Dinajpur district, and the 15 kilometre area between Masudpur and Koya in Chapainawabganj district, said the press release.

The release also said that ATVs will be used to conduct regular patrols in these areas based on information from the surveillance systems, making state security activities more organized and timelier.

ATVs are well suited for navigation on muddy, narrow roads, sandy pastures, various reservoirs including canals, hilly roads, and any inaccessible road. They can also be dropped from helicopters for use in special operations due to their light weight.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangla...terrain-vehicles-to-combat-cross-border-crime

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

BGB has lately been behaving like a spoilt kid in a toy store!


Me likey!

BGB got shekels!

 

[Metal 0-1]

Something Pakistan needs to get for their Special Operations community

 

[Bilal9]

These motorcycle based ATV's should be made locally, any local motorcycle maker are already equipped to produce them. Rolling/Bending thin-kerf pipe, making frames and MIG/TIG welding chain-drive engines to these frames is not rocket science.

We do not need to import these and waste precious foreign exchange. They are moreover ideal for muddy semi-wet areas in Bangladesh using knobby tires.

Govt. should reduce tariff on the parts for these ATV engines and tubing. As well as raise tariffs on finished ATV's.

BTW they were used in the last US military campaign in IRAQ. These are called "Dune buggies" or "Sand Rails".

Mobility over rough terrain is very good...

On Flat sandy terrain, these can hit speeds of over 100 MPH...

 

[leonblack08]

BGB has lately been behaving like a spoilt kid in a toy store!


Me likey!

BGB got shekels!

The best thing is, these are not even part of our defence budget.

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

The best thing is, these are not even part of our defence budget.

They come under home ministry budget I think ? Alongside other 'law enforcement' agencies.


If I'm not wrong, home ministry got 3 billion USD budget this year.

That's a massive budget for a force like BGB that doesn't require extremely expensive equipment unlike the armed forces but even then the police, Rab and DB grab most of the budget with their massive pension payouts and salaries. Not to mention the ansars and vdp.



I hope BGB's budget is specifically demarcated so the police mongrels can hog it all for themselves.


Actually both the BGB and Ansar VDP should be given a dynamic budget, which is specific to their needs.

 

[Michael Corleone]

These motorcycle based ATV's should be made locally, any local motorcycle maker are already equipped to produce them. Rolling/Bending thin-kerf pipe, making frames and MIG/TIG welding chain-drive engines to these frames is not rocket science.

We do not need to import these and waste precious foreign exchange. They are moreover ideal for muddy semi-wet areas in Bangladesh using knobby tires.

Govt. should reduce tariff on the parts for these ATV engines and tubing. As well as raise tariffs on finished ATV's.

BTW they were used in the last US military campaign in IRAQ. These are called "Dune buggies" or "Sand Rails".

Mobility over rough terrain is very good...

On Flat sandy terrain, these can hit speeds of over 100 MPH...

i wonder why they didn't slap a 50 cal on a land cruiser and call it a day?

 

[leonblack08]

They come under home ministry budget I think ? Alongside other 'law enforcement' agencies.


If I'm not wrong, home ministry got 3 billion USD budget this year.

That's a massive budget for a force like BGB that doesn't require extremely expensive equipment unlike the armed forces but even then the police, Rab and DB grab most of the budget with their massive pension payouts and salaries. Not to mention the ansars and vdp.



I hope BGB's budget is specifically demarcated so the police mongrels can hog it all for themselves.


Actually both the BGB and Ansar VDP should be given a dynamic budget, which is specific to their needs.

Yes, they fall under the home ministry. BGB being a para-military force, if we take their budget into account, Bangladesh has increased defence spending by some margin in the last few years.

They are also spending on Ansar and VDP forces. Have seen pictures with special militarized battalions within Ansar recently, which is good news. They are our readily available reserves in times of war after all.

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

Yes, they fall under the home ministry. BGB being a para-military force, if we take their budget into account, Bangladesh has increased defence spending by some margin in the last few years.

They are also spending on Ansar and VDP forces. Have seen pictures with special militarized battalions within Ansar recently, which is good news. They are our readily available reserves in times of war after all.

And we always have 164 million ready to die rather than live under non Bengalis thumbs.

If '71 taught us anything, it's that our scrawny lungi clad brothers and sari clad sisters are not scared to fight, unless they nuke us, I don't see how anyone can tame our people.


The government should stock weapons in the every police station/ Thana, should war come to our land, we should equip our countrymen, if the war spills into the interior of the country.


Once our people take arms, it'll be a tedious job to try and hold the land and no amount of air strikes will suffice. Guerilla warfare is often overlooked and underestimated but it's a well documented fact that small Guerilla strikes can chip away at an occupational forces morale.

 

[Imran Khan]

Something Pakistan needs to get for their Special Operations community

really ??????? pakistan manufacture them

 

[Nilgiri]

BGB got shekels!

oy vey!

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Something Pakistan needs to get for their Special Operations community

I believe we do operate ATVs and dirt bikes.

 

[Bilal9]

i wonder why they didn't slap a 50 cal on a land cruiser and call it a day?

You can't jump over twenty foot ravines and land and keep going with Land cruisers. These can.

There's a place off of LA in Southern California (Glamis) where they race them in the desert.

Here is an event in Qatar - This is getting popular in the Gulf too...

 

[Metal 0-1]

Fine line between manufacturing and using......

really ??????? pakistan manufacture them

I believe we do operate ATVs and dirt bikes.

Please share with us.