Focus More Attention On Crime Prevention, Group Tells Police

A Port Harcourt-based advocacy group, Advocacy for Peace, Good Governance and Social Justice, has accused the police of focusing m ore attention on the check of vehicle particulars instead of crime prevention.
Coordinator of the group, Mr. John Clement, who stated this at a peace rally held by his organisation in Rumuodomaya Community in Port Harcourt last Monday, pointed out that if the attention given to the check of vehicle particulars was given to crime prevention, the state would be the most peaceful in the country. He said there were several police checkpoints everywhere in the state yet, criminals roamed around unhindered.
Clement expressed regrets that most policemen at checkpoints were actually working for themselves collecting tolls from motorists whose vehicle particulars were in default instead of preventing crimes.
He noted that situation had become more precarious in recent times against the backdrop of worsening criminal activities in the state.
Clement averred that the police must be proactive in their crime prevention in order to checkmate the spate of crime in the state.
He said it was important for the police to have the profile of criminals ravaging a particular area as most of those criminals had their domain.
The president of the group urged the Federal Government to continue to retrain the police on modern ways of fighting crimes and terrarism.

Chidi Enyie