IGP Adamu Calls For Public Police Partnership
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Thursday in Lagos called for a visible public Police partnership or community policing in order to tackle all forms of criminalities in the country.
IGP Adamu, represented by the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, wondered why arms and ammunition is being illegally imported, smuggled and possessed in the country.
The top Police boss called on members of the public to give information on security to the Police in the spirit of the partnership to tame criminalities.
His words: “The launched of Operation Puff Adder on 5th April, 2019, was as a veritable, vehicular, anti- crime machine to dismantle all forms of arms and other instruments of criminality”.
He further explained at the annual lecture awards series organised by the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria, CRAN, that the operational, tactical and convert units of the Nigeria Police Force, have been charged and directed through special orders to match all forms of criminal activities in Lagos and in Ogun State during the ember months of celebration on the highways, social centers, communities, institutions, religious centres especially along Lagos -Ibadan expressway, Sagamu-Benin-Ore highways and other high ways.