Oyo CP Urges Nigerians To Engage In Community Policing

The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Indabawa, on Saturday in Ibadan urged various communities in the country to engage in community policing.
Indabawa, represented by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mrs Bisi Clet-Ilobanafor, said this during the 5^th Anniversary Lecture on Road Accident Information and Rescue Organisation. The theme of the lecture is: “Developing an Effective National Security”.
Indabawa said that community policing was the collaboration of the community members with the police to ensure that the society was free of crime.
He said that the police could not achieve any meaningful success in crime prevention without the support of the community
“There should be information sharing among all the security agencies in the country”, Bamgboye said.
He said that consumption of alcohol and other dangerous drugs accounted for the 90 per cent of road accidents in Nigeria.“Every Nigeria has responsibility and a role to play on both drug abuse eradication and security challenge.“Security issues should not be seen as only the states and the Federal Government’s responsibility, it should be the collective responsibility of everybody”, He advised the Federal Government to empower the police to make use of bio-data information collected by the National Identification Management Commission (NIMC) as sources to combat crime.
The State Commandant, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mr Omolade Faboye, said Nigerians should rise to fight the menace of drug abuse.
Faboye, who was represented by Mrs Ijeoma Chikezie, said that taking drugs like narcotic, heroine and other dangerous drugs destabilised the body system. Faboye said.