Overview

• Border Security Force personnel will receive over 5,000 night-vision body-worn cameras in two batches, each device offering 12–14 hours of recording capability
• Fingerprint and iris-scanning units will be installed at selected border posts to build an evidence-based database of undocumented Bangladeshis for the Foreigners Registration Office
• Approval came after a comprehensive review of security along the 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border following the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government
• Recorded footage is intended to provide verifiable evidence in cases of attacks on troops or disputed use-of-force incidents
• Official data show the BSF apprehended 1,372 infiltrators and received 3,536 handed over by state police up to July 15, with 77 attacks on personnel last year and 35 through June