Dear Residents, this is an update from your local Neighbourhood Policing Team

           We’d like to give a brief update on the Bangladesh Memorial Ceremony for their Mother Language Day of celebration which took place at the Memorial Park on Main Road Westwood on Thursday 20th February

Around 100 people from the community turned up for the event with a couple of your local Policing team also attending. The Event from a Policing point of view went down well and was said to be good spirited.

The day was formerly recognised by the United Nations in 2002, and has been observed in Bangladesh since 1955.

Known as Language Movement Day in Bangladesh, the day was born from the Bengali language movement, which saw years of civil conflict and protests in the effort to establish Bengali as an official language following the division of the Indian subcontinent when Britain ended its colonial rule of the region.

Bengali was made an official language of Pakistan in its 1956 constitution, following the protests.

Bangladesh did not gain independence from Pakistan until 1971.

A memorial to those killed during the Bengali Language Movements, the Central Shaheed Minar, stands outside the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh.

Attendees place reefs at the monument and later celebrated with food and cake, so all in all it was a lovely day !

Hopefully we’ll have more good news events in future to tell you about, and let you know how the Police are going to attend these and meet the public.

Thanks very much

Martin – On behalf of GMP