In addition to Bangladesh Ansar, the Village Defence Party or VDP was raised in January 05, 1976 with a view to establishing peace, security and social order. There is one male and one female platoon in every village of the country, each consisting of 32 members. The primary objective of raising VDP in rural areas is to create a community based human security network to maintain law and order

Ansar-VDP members contribute in maintaining law and order and ensuring human security by:

• Identifying and monitoring the activities of the miscreants and derailed youngsters.
• Counselling the guardians of the derailed youths.
• Building awareness among people around them against the wrong doings of the bad guys of the community.
• Female Ansar-VDP members having access to the houses of the neighbours, can talk, counsel and motivate the mothers and sisters on their roles in removing social injustice, gender disparity etc and maintaining social security.  
• Organizing vigilance teams to guard against theft and robbery.
• Preventing use and smuggling of drugs, women and children trafficking by vigilance, interference, reporting and organizing popular support.
• Actively participating in disaster management by preventing looting, distribution and delivery of relief materials and assisting rehabilitation programmes.
• Participating and encouraging others to engage in income generation projects to alleviate poverty, the root cause of most of the evils.