Inspector-General of Police, Mr.
Mohammed Abubakar, has said there is the need for members of the public
to provide intelligence information to the police in order to achieve a
zero level crime in the country.
The IG, who made this call on Saturday
at a workshop on Intelligence Sensitisation and Community Partnership,
organised for the South-South zone in Calabar, Cross River State, said
the police were not all knowing, insisting that they needed information
from members of the public to fight crime.
The workshop, which was organised by the
Force Intelligence Bureau, Abuja, had the theme, ‘Enhancing national
security through intelligence and community partnership’.
The event attracted representatives of
local governments, civil society organisations, traditional rulers,
students, youths, the Nigerian Bar Association, the media and other
professional bodies from Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and Abia
states.
According to him, it is not possible for
the police to know everything that transpires in the numerous
communities in the country, stressing that viable information given to
the police would help to crack criminalities in areas where they occur.
Abubakar, who was represented by the
Director, Force Intelligence Bureau, Mr. Solomon Arase, said, “The
public should cooperate with the police so as to achieve the purpose for
which the command was established.”
In his address, Governor Liyel Imoke,
who was represented by his deputy, Mr. Efiok Cobham, appealed to members
of the public to always give intelligence information that could assist
the police in fishing out criminals from their hideouts.
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