Insecurity: Okowa Inaugurates Community Policing Committees

INline with it’s new security outfit, Operation Delta Hawks, Delta State Government, yesterday, inaugurated two committees on community policing, adding the move is in response to yearnings of citizens for local policing apparatus to check rising security challenges in the state.

While inaugurating the State Community Policing Advisory Committee ( SCPAC) and State Community Policing Committee ( SCPC), Governor Ifeanyi Okowa said the essence was to deepen the security architecture and nip insecurity on the bud once and for all, just as the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu said the inauguration marked the commencement of community policing in Delta.

Governor Okowa, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Olisa Ifeajika, said the committees will help to bolster community policing, check criminal activities and assist the Police and other security agencies to ensure a crime- free society.

“The last six weeks or so have been very tasking and challenging, not just with the existential threats posed by the COVID- 19 global pandemic, but also of emerging security risks confronting the various federating units. Notwithstanding the steady progress made by this administration in partnership with relevant security agencies to ensure the peace and safety of individuals, communities and public property in the state, there’s a compelling need to continually deepen and expand our security architecture in such a manner that we are able to preempt and arrest any untoward development.”

He emphasised, “Of weighty consideration in this regard is the necessity to bolster our community policing apparatus as the monsters of farmers/ herdsmen clashes, cultism, small arms and light weapons proliferations, kidnapping, armed robbery, and other violent crimes appear to be on the resurgence.

“Urgent steps are, therefore, required to avert a possible breakdown of law and order.”