Mohammed Adamu, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has called on Nigerians to help and trust the police once again in their battle to eliminate crime in the country.
He also said that to function in any police architecture, it must not alienate the people it is created to protect.
On Friday, while addressing 288 Special Constabularies at the Police Training School, Odukpani during the passing out parade, the IGP made this known.
Adamu, represented by the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Zone 6 Calabar, Zaki Ahmed, said that the police have to look beyond logistics, motivation, and recognize the value of returning police to the society for them to achieve their mandate optimally.
His words: “The programme is a brain child of the Inspector-General of Police initiated as one of the strategies of the Nigeria Police designed to employ an all-inclusive mechanism to aid the police in the quest to achieve its internal security mandate in the country.
“The increasing complexity of crime and the challenges of policing a vast and diverse country like ours gave birth to this people oriented method that will bring about trust, consent and partnership between the police and the people.null
“For any policing architecture to succeed, it must not alienate the citizens it’s established to protect. To optimally achieve this mandate, the police have to look beyond logistics, motivation and consider the importance of returning policing to the community.
“This however, requires that the Nigeria Police should continually engage the citizens in seeking their inputs and soliciting the support of all in addressing these peculiar challenges that affect our diverse localities.
“It is for this reason that the Police Management considered the adoption of citizen-driven pathways for the purpose of identifying, dissecting and prioritizing security threats as well as working together.
