IGP Task Officers On Community Policing

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris has tasked graduands of the Police Staff College Jos, over the weekend, to be proactive in community Policing.

The Institute which graduated 45 Assistant Commissioners of Police, three Deputy Commissioners and One Acting Deputy Commissioner, is hitherto known as Senior Command Course, redesigned amongst other objectives to prepare and equip officers with emphasis on Strategic Leadership Techniques to sharpen their professional knowledge and skills.

Addressing the graduands, IGP Idris, who was represented by DIG Emmanuel Inyang, stated that the attendance of the graduands at the course was informed by the high premium the Police Force attaches to training at all cadres of the force, saying that the goal therefore is to ensure members of the Force are competent, more confident and very efficient in the art of modern Policing.

His words, “we must remain vigilante, deal firmly and decisively with all politically-related crimes in whatever ramification and citizens in your areas must be made to observe strictly, the Public Order Act.

“You are hereby charged to effectively marshal your resources to bringing crime to the barest minimum level and you are to check-mate activities of criminals and can only serve the people when we enlist their support and trust and one of the ways of doing this is to have partnership with the stakeholders as embedded in the principles of
community Policing”.

Earlier, the Commandant Police Staff College Jos, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Dorothy Gimba, noted that the course which is the highest offered in the apex Police training institution in the country, is meant to re-position the above cadre of officers to improve on their managerial capacities to have better perspective of modern trends in management of crime and criminality.

“It will enable them deal with the issues of Human Rights, Rule of Law and other challenges facing the Nigeria Police Force with a view to curtailing them in line with international best practice,” she said.

Gimba stressed that in realising this goal, various resource persons, which includes staff from the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), were invited to lecture the participants, including the Gbong Gwom Jos, Da. Jacob Gyang Buba, who lectured course participants on the roles of the traditional institution in community policing and
crime prevention.