Olaniyonu Makes Case for Community Policing

Yusuph Olaniyonu

Yusuph Olaniyonu: calls for better policing

Abiodun Onafuye,Abeokuta

Ogun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Yusuph Olaniyonu has underscored the need for community policing, calling on Nigerians to be vigilant at all times, particularly now that the country is facing serious security challenges.

The Commissioner stated this on 18 April in Abeokuta while delivering a lecture at a programme organised by Junior Chamber International, JCI, themed: “Effective Policing; the Key Factor to a Crime-Free Society.

He emphasized that the business of ensuring security is the collective responsibility of all, urging Nigerians to get law enforcement agencies informed of any suspicious move or activity that could threaten the security and peace of the community.

Yusuph Olaniyonu: calls for better policing
Yusuph Olaniyonu: calls for better policing

“We must all be vigilant at all times and get the Police informed of any suspicious move that is inimical to the security, and consequently, the peace of our community. That is why I am an advocate of community policing, where all of us, consciously police our environment. We must realise that members of the Nigerian Police are neither spirits nor omniscient. Thus, we provide them with information that can truncate the moves of men of the underworld,” he said.

He called on the Police High Command to rid the Force of bad eggs and take necessary steps to launder its image in the mind of the populace.

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He noted that orientation programmes, seminars and trainings are needed from time to time, to reorientate policemen. He said this will help them to see themselves as public servants and trustees and not masters or rulers of the public.

He also enjoined government to improve the funding of the police force, stating that this will motivate them and smoothen police-public interaction.

Corroborating the position of the Commissioner, the State Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), DSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi emphasised the need for the people to be security conscious and vigilant in their day-to-day activities.

Adejobi added that members of the society needed to assist the Police by giving out information that could help in nabbing people with criminal tendencies.

National President of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) of Nigeria, Eniola Egbekunle, disclosed that security of lives and property is one of the basic needs of every Nigerian, stressing that the intervention of the Police was important to maintain law and order in the society.

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