President Muhammadu Buhari has explained plans by the federal government to facilitate the recruitment of about 10,000 police officers.
The president believes that it will enhance his administration’s policy of zero tolerance for criminal activities as well as criminal tendencies among youths arising from the problems of massive unemployment in the country.
According to a report credited to Vanguard, Buhari also informed that government is to establish properly trained and equipped federal anti- terrorism, multi-agency task force that will effectively address the challenge of Boko Haram and any form of insurgency in a sustainable manner.
The Nigerian leader, who made this statement while addressing the audience during the one day National Security Summit organized by the Nigerian Police force and Sun Newspapers in Abuja with the theme ‘Community partnership approach to internal security and crime management’ Monday, said: “In order to further strengthen the security of the public space, consideration is being given to the expansion of the CCTV Monitoring System across major cities and towns in the country while police accountability mechanism will be strengthened.
The need for community input to policing and crime management in Nigeria has even become more imperative considering our current national security challenges in which kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, transnational crimes, terrorism and other organized crimes have evolved to threaten our national values and developmental strides.
“While it is understandable that unemployment, illiteracy, radicalization, negative peer group influence, substance abuse and erosion of family and moral values are social factors that underline criminal tendency, the reality remains that the task of addressing these challenges is that of parents, community and the state.
He also revealed that efforts are in top gear to enhance the operational capacity of officers of the Nigeria Police force through some ready-made training programmes that will give them the right civil orientation in their roles as guardians of the constitution,.
The former military ruler added further that his administration will encourage the development of state-level community policing under a model that will integrate members of the community to policing functions at the grassroots level.
As a way of curbing insecurity in the country, the Nigerian leaders recently asked the nation’s service chiefs to ensure they put an end to Boko Haram’s radical torment of the citizens in three months.
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