Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday told parliament that the police headquarters has taken a 'zero tolerance' policy against wicked persons in the police force, reports UNB.

As the main law enforcement agency of the country, Bangladesh Police has been performing its duty relentlessly with the attitude of punishing wicked persons and promoting good ones, he said replying to a tabled starred question from Awami League MP Refat Amin (Women Seat-12).

The MP wanted to know whether the government has any plan to prepare lists of honest and dishonest police officers in every police station across the country.

The minister said, "In this regard, the police headquarters has taken a zero tolerance policy. Whenever any offence -- personal of moral degradation -- is found against a member of the force, the police headquarters immediately takes proper departmental and legal actions against him or her."

In reply to another starred question from treasury bench MP AKM Zahangir Hossain, the minister said a total of 15,919 prisoners convicted in different jail terms are in the country's jails as of February 1 last.