Bangladesh Elections: Over 50% Polling Centres 'Risky', CCTV & Body Cams Deployed

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CNBC TV18•11-02-2026, 08:34
Bangladesh Elections: Over 50% Polling Centres 'Risky', CCTV & Body Cams Deployed
- •More than half of Bangladesh's polling centres are identified as "risk-prone" for the general elections.
- •90% of these centres will be under CCTV surveillance; police in Dhaka will use body cameras for the first time.
- •Election Commission's security system is based on risk assessment, with the largest-ever deployment of law enforcement.
- •Police identified 24,000 out of nearly 43,000 polling centres as high or moderate risk-prone.
- •The election is mainly between Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami, with BNP as the frontrunner.
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