Community policing, panacea to crime, says Ogun compol

The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, on Thursday identified community policing as a veritable means of making the state crime free.
Iliyasu stated this while receiving members of the Police Community Relation Committee at the Officers’ Mess in Abeokuta, the state capital.
The police commissioner, who assured the PCRC members of the necessary support to ensure security of lives and property in the state, stressed that the command, under his watch, was ready to use community policing to combat crime in the state.
He said,” You will get all the necessary cooperation to identify with your cause, we are ready every minute, every second, every hour to listen to any suggestions that will enhance security and safety in Ogun State.”
Iliyasu, therefore, urged community leaders in the state not to harbour criminals in their custody, saying that community leaders should be able to provide the police information about criminality in their communities.
“There is nobody living outside there in the village who will do something without the Baale of that area not having any information,” he said.
Iliyasu, however, appealed to the group’s members and leaders in the communities as well the members of the public to always provide the police with information in order to make the state crime free.
The Chairman of PCRC, Alhaji Ibrahim Olaniyan, stressed that the group had been partnering with the Vigilante Service of Ogun State to ensure that all the communities in the state were secure.
“We will have our Baales, our Landlord Associations, we will get their reports and through our members in the area, we will feed our police with the necessary information,” Olaniyan said.