Don’t leave crime-fighting to police alone – Lagos CP tells residents

The Commissioner of Police successful Lagos State, Fatai Tijani, has called connected residents and different assemblage stakeholders to enactment intimately with information agencies successful the combat against transgression and the attraction of peace.

Tijani made the entreaty on Thursday at a stakeholders’ information gathering organised by the Area D Police Command successful Mushin.

The meeting, which was held astatine the command’s premises, focused connected strengthening practice betwixt information agencies and residents successful addressing information challenges wrong the community.

The commissioner said effectual policing depended connected progressive information from members of the communities, stressing that community-based policing required a concern involving the police, accepted rulers, assemblage leaders, youths and different stakeholders.

“The corporate extremity is to make a peaceful and unafraid situation wherever residents tin spell astir their activities without fear,” helium said.

Tijani commended residents, constabulary personnel, different information agencies and stakeholders for their contributions to the comparative bid recorded successful the area.

He, however, noted that immoderate information challenges persisted, peculiarly cultism, cause maltreatment and different transgression activities, which helium said required a corporate response.

“Do not permission crime-fighting to the constabulary alone. All of america indispensable instrumentality part.

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