Community policing is aimed at addressing insecurity-ACP Muhammad

The Area Commander, Warri Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Assistant Commissioner of


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Community policing is aimed at addressing insecurity-ACP Muhammad


The Area Commander, Warri Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Muhammad Shaba says Community Policing is aimed at empowering and conferring the responsibility of insecurity challenges on inhabitants in our localities in conjunction with the Nigeria Police as well as sister agencies with a view to enhance effective security.

ACP Muhammad Shaba made the remark in Warri recently during the flag-off of the “Community Policing Project” covering eleven (11) Police Divisions across seven (7) local Government council areas of Delta State.

According to him, the level of insecurity has become heightened by our domestic staff such as drivers, house helps and gardeners, saying, insecurity today is the upper most social problem pervasive in contemporary societies such as Nigeria.

He noted that residents/communities must synergize with the police, sister agencies and government at all levels to address the problem of insecurity around us.

Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Zanna A. Ibrahim in his address at the occasion read by ACP Dan Mammah, noted that criminals are not spirits and therefore can only be easily identified and exposed to the hands of the law by members of the community they live, even as he charged all well-meaning and responsible citizens of Delta State to embrace this all important project to build a secure and peaceful State.

CP Zanna frowned at the un-coordinated nature of the operations of the various vigilante groups in the State, disclosed that plan have reached advance stage to streamline and bring the operations of these vigilante groups into a well-organized organization under the strict supervision of the Police formations in their area of operations.

He warned members of the vigilante groups to desist from arresting, detaining innocent persons as well as beating them up without reasons, saying some members of these vigilante are even criminals themselves, noting that they must operate within the ambit of the law of the land.


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Emma Arubi
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