Bangladesh - Community Policing

BACKGROUND

The Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) works to strengthen partnerships, civilian capacity, and information sharing around the world to counter terrorist threats and prevent the spread of violent extremism. CT designs, manages, and oversees foreign assistance programs to build the civilian capabilities of foreign government partners to counter terrorism and violent extremism in an effective and sustainable fashion. CT seeks to build law enforcement and judicial capabilities to prevent attacks, disrupt terrorist transit, and arrest, investigate, prosecute, and incarcerate terrorists in accordance with the rule of law.

PROJECT'S GOALS

CT seeks proposals that aim to develop and implement comprehensive, counterterrorism-centric community policing strategies for eligible law enforcement units with a counterterrorism mandate in Sylhet, Chittagong, and Rajshahi. Strategies should emphasize approaches that improve or reinforce lawful intelligence-gathering methodology, operate within a human rights-respecting framework and rule of law, effectively engage and involve communities on terrorism awareness and prevention, improve or reinforce law enforcement coordination and information sharing, increase awareness of terrorist recruitment strategies and modus operandi, and incorporate pre-trial monitoring of suspected terrorists. Applicants should articulate how they intend to design and implement training, technical assistance, and/or mentoring activities that reinforce and build-upon developed strategies, to include follow-on monitoring and evaluation of activity/program beneficiaries to assess their ability to successfully apply good practices and knowledge gained. CT will favorably consider proposals that utilize train-the-trainer and adult learning approaches.