Community policing will kickstart by September – IG

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The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has disclosed that community policing would kickstart across the country by September.

He made this disclosure yesterday at an interactive session with Senate Committee on Police Affairs.

Adamu stated that the implementation committees of community policing had since been inaugurated in all the 36 states of the federation.

“All the committees for the community policing strategy implementation have been inaugurated in all the states of the federation. We are at the level of selection of the community policing officers now. We hope by August/ September we will complete the process,” he said.

His words: “I was invited by the Senate Committee on Police Affairs to discuss the implementation strategy of community policing and security challenges and we briefed them on what we have done so far.

“Community policing will take care of everything – the criminals are coming from the communities, which means within the community if you come from that community you will be able to identify that A, B, C are engaged in acts that either will lead to the commission of crime or they are committing the crime.

“So, because you come from the community, you will identify them and let the community policing committee in the ward and the local government level to identify them so that they take them out before they commit the crime. So, it is going to be effective in terms of grassroots policing and this is what is required,” Adamu noted.

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