IG Advocates Community Policing, Says Police Will Help End Insurgency

Seriki Adinoyi

The Inspector General of Police (IG), Ibrahim Idris, has advocated community policing, observing that it will help to achieve very low crime profile within communities in the country.

Idris added that it would be a perfect force to stem out hate speech, insurgency and other societal ills ravaging the country.

He stated this at the weekend during the occasion of the graduating ceremony of Advanced Detective Course held at the Police Staff College in Jos, the Plateau State capital.

According to the IG, the police force management has re-launched the community policing scheme with massive campaigns on robust engagement of critical stakeholders and other non-state actors, to engender public support aimed at achieving very low crime profile in our communities.

The IG added that “these endeavours have also resulted in the establishment of Eminent Persons Forum (EPF), strengthening the police public relations committees at all the commands and the regular convocation of security summits in various locations.”

The police boss said in spite of the efforts by the police and other security agencies, serious crimes as insurgency, militancy, kidnapping, armed robbery, human trafficking, financial crimes, hate speeches have continued to constitute a major challenge to national security.

Earlier, the Commandant of the Police Staff College, Dorothy Gimba, said the college has equipped the graduating police officers with the contemporary knowledge to combat crimes, especially the current farmers/ herders conflicts and the proliferation of small and light weapons.

Gimba said the college authority also took cognisance of the fact that drugs, money laundering, and access to the internet, play major roles in aiding these crimes, adding that the successful prosecution of arrested suspects remains most potent weapon in tackling the menace.