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  • Police boss charges officers on crime prevention

    Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris has charged officers of the Force to be tactical in the fight against crime in the country.

    He also directed his officers to respect human rights and dignity in the discharge of their duties.

    Idris gave the charge in Jos yesterday at the graduation ceremony of 44 Chief Superintendents of Police (CSPs) who participated in the Tactical Leadership and Command Course (TLCC)

    The IGP said: “The tactical leadership and Command Course is the intermediate among the three executive courses offered by the college.

    “The course which is for Chief Superintendents of Police (CSPs) drawn from various commands and formations across the country is designed for participants to have an overview of the Nigeria police general roles.

    “The course creates an avenue for the juxtaposition of the traditional approach to security and contemporary ways of handling same.”

    He added: “It equally provides for thorough and comparative studies on isolated pressing and recurring security challenges with a view of improving the service tactics and successfully surmounting such challenges.

    “The course, being a leadership-oriented one, is meant to further impact on the participants with required skills to effectively manage their subordinates and prepare them for future leadership responsibilities.

    “Having been trained and equipped with these skills, you are expected to go back to your respective commands and formations and demonstrate your new knowledge in a more effective crime management in a professional way to reduce crime in our society.”

    Commandant of the College, AIG Dorothy Gimba said the participants were assigned topics of interest on contemporary issues and were expected to proffer solutions to myriads of problems bedeviling the country.

  • IGP charges police officers to be Tactical in crime prevention

    Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, has charged officers of the Nigerian police to be tactical in the fight against crime in the country.

    The IGP also directed his officers to respect human rights and dignity in the discharge of their duties.

    IGP Idris gave the charge in Jos Saturday at the graduation ceremony of 44 Chief Superintendent of Police (CSPs) who participated in the Tactical Leadership and Command Course (TLCC)

    IGP said, “The tactical leadership and Command Course is the intermediate among the three executive courses offered by the college. The course which is for Chief superintendent of police (CSPs) draws drawn from various commands and formations across the country is designed for participants to have an overview of the Nigeria police general roles.

    “The course creates an avenue for the juxtaposition of the traditional approach to security and contemporary ways of handling same. It equally provides for thorough and comparative studies on isolated pressing and recurring security challenges with a view of improving the service tactics and successful surmounting such challenges.

    The course, being a leadership-oriented one, is meant to further impact on the participants with required skills to effectively manage their subordinates and prepare them for future leadership responsibilities.

    Having bee trained and equipped with these skills, you are expected to go back to your respective commands and formations and demonstrate your new knowledge in a more effective crime management in a professional ways to reduce crime in our society.

    Earlier in his remarks, Commandant of the College, AIG Dorothy Gimba said, “The police staff college with the support of the force management team under the leadership of IGP Ibrahim Idris has witnessed significant transformation in the areas of academic and infrastructure.

    The commandant informed the participants that to whom much is given, much is expected. She added that the participants were assigned topics of interest on contemporary issues and were expected to proffer solutions to myriads of problems bedeviling the country.

    In his valedictory remarks, course chairman, CSP Yahaya Hassan, assured the IGP and the commandant that the skills acquired in the training will be put to maximum use for the benefit of citizens of the country.

  • Crime: Lawmaker urges Lagos residents to provide useful information

    The Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Strategy and Security has urged automobile dealers, hoteliers and nightclubs owners to assist government in gathering intelligence towards preventing crime.

    The Chairman of the committee, Mr Tunde Braimoh (APC-Kosofe II), made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.

    He was reacting to the people’s appeal for the state government to take necessary measures to improve the security of lives and property in the state.

    “What criminals spend their money on is cars, women, and drinks.

    “So we need our car dealers to assist us with intelligence; they can know when somebody comes around gallivanting and behaving as if on top of the world without any reasonable means of income.

    “We should know and we should be able to make up intelligence immediately.”

    According to him, Lagos is one of the most secure cities in the world regardless of current security challenges.

    “Yes, there may be pockets of crimes here and there, but we must know that there is no big city anywhere in the world that does not have such problems.”

    He stressed the need for all stakeholders to assist the government in tackling the spate of insecurity.

    He said, “We cannot leave everything to government alone as all of us have to be our brothers’ keepers.”

    Braimoh noted that Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode has earmarked more than N23.5bn for security in the 2016 budget and more than N4 billion on the same issue towards the end of 2015.

    The lawmaker urged the residents to show concern about security issues, stressing that criminals will not cease from terrorising the society.

    “We should work on intelligence gathering which in most cases will help prevent crime from occurring in the first place, because the system we use now is reactionary in nature like we have the Rapid Response Squad.

    “But responding is not the best, because that will be like medicine after death.

    “Even prosecution of criminals is still reactionary in nature, but when we focus on preventing crime, we save ourselves from the rigor of responding to crime.

    “Prevention is always better than cure.”

    He argued that it is imperative for anybody caught sharing part of the proceeds of crime to be prosecuted as an accomplice.

    Braimoh said ladies indulging in harbouring criminals or frolicking of them should not be spared when they were found in the midst of these criminals.

    He advocated that markets must be secured from activities of criminals, saying all markets must be locked up at nightfall.

  • Ambode tasks police to review strategy on crime prevention

    Ambode tasks police to review strategy on crime prevention

    Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has urged the State Police Command to step up its surveillance in the state and come up with new strategies to tackle the wave of criminal activities in the state.

    Speaking at the closing session of the four-day leadership retreat for the State Executive Council, Body of Permanent Secretaries as well as some heads of parastatals, the governor further urged the Police to improve on its mode of operations to ensure the safety of lives and properties in the state.

    The governor, who spoke shortly after the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, addressed participants at the retreat, also pledged the support of the state government towards effective policing of the state.

    While noting that the resources ploughed into securing the state must reflect in the reduction of criminal activities, the governor added, “We are not yet where we want to be; we have only 33, 000 policemen in Lagos for a population of over 20million. Again, we don’t have control over these police officers.

    “We need to let the Commissioner of police leave this retreat believing that the Police need to own their own business just the way we have told ourselves that we want to own the business of governance. We need to see some things change. There has to be some form of paradigm shift; we want to see our police officers patrol in convoy between 12 midnight and 4am.

    “That is why we on our own part, we have gone out of our budget limits, using our resources from the Security Trust Fund, to say that, yes, it might not be within our budget, but we would spend money to support the police, because if the state is safe, the economy will thrive.”

    The governor also charged his team to take the lessons learnt from the retreat and make a commitment to implementing them in their various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) so as to better the lot of the people of the state.

    On his part, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, who read the resolutions reached at the retreat, said the participants agreed that the police in conjunction with the state government will come up with a holistic and joint approach to tackle traffic robberies, cultism, street trading and menace of area boys in the state.

    He said: “Participants agreed to proffer immediate, short and long term solutions towards unlocking traffic gridlock on major roads, highways and streets in Lagos. They also agreed on the need to deploy appropriate cutting edge technologies to improve revenue generation.”