The Borno State Police Command has inaugurated Area Command and 27 Local Government Councils Divisional Headquarters officers and advisers in efforts to control and manage crimes as well as enhance and strengthen activities of the Nigeria Police.
Inaugurating the committee at the police headquarters in MAIDUGURI, Assistant Inspector General,AIG zone 15,Lawan Ado, said that community policing initiatives is intelligence base aimed at nipping crime in the bud within the society.
“The community policing initiatives is to involve all stakeholders such as traditional rulers, chairmen local government area, hunters, vigilantes, Civilian Joint Task Force ( CJTF), Road Transport Workers Unions, Business associations, community Base organizations among others in policing their communities”, AIG Ado said
According to him,it was a commitment to ensure crime free society for the Borno state Police Command to inaugurate Area command and Divisional Police community policing initiatives across the 27 local government areas and divisions.
He said ” the committees which includes police advisory and community policing committees at both area and divisional levels,and that,it would not only provide intelligence to the police but settle small disputes within their communities, thereby facilitating quick dispensation of justice”.
Also commenting,the State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Aliyu Ndatsu said “the community knows itself, everyone knows who is who in the community, and should be in better position to report any persons trying to commit the crime before they commit it.
He said the state has 8 Area commands and 27 LGAs and stakeholders were constituted to work and cooperate with the NPF and giving out prompt intelligence before even a crime is committed.
The CP also urged the community to screen very well the members of the committee, so as not to nominate criminals that would undermine the aim of the committee,especially the presence of people of questionable character in the committee will give room for the person to reveal the strategy of the committee rather than giving useful information to the security”, Mohammed said
The Chairman, Borno State Community Policing Committee, Alhaji Sanda Sherriff said ” I want to assure the police that we will work together to ensure crime free society and will also address some civil and minor cases at the community level before even getting to the police station.
