The Counter Terrorism Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) for the first time will get two bomb disposal robots from the United States of America (USA) today.
The robots will be handed over on Sunday to the bomb disposal unit for freeas part of the US Embassy’s anti-terrorist support programme, said AsifMohiuddin, assistant deputy commissioner (ADC) of CMP’s Counter Terrorism Unit.
CMP gets 2 bomb disposal robots from US
He said the robots are scheduled to be handed over to the CMP commissionertoday at city’s Dampara Police Lines. Ricky B. Chambers, senior counter-terrorism adviser of US Embassy in Dhaka,will hand over two Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) robots with complete setup.
He said bomb disposal experts will be given two-week training by EOD technicians to operate the robots. The remotely controlled robots are capable of defuse explosives on the spot
or move them to a safer place without physical touch, said the CMP sources.