Bayelsa 32nd Police Boss Talks Tough Against Crime

Bayelsa State Police Command at the weekend received its newly redeployed Commissioner of police, CP Mike Okoli.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after addressing men and officers of the command, the police commissioner assured their readiness to fight crime and criminality in the state.
He stressed that the command under him would partner other sister security agencies,the media amongst others in curbing crime in the state.
CP Okoli who was redeployed from the Force Training Command,Force headquarters, Abuja resumed duty, last Friday replacing former CP Nkereuwem Akpan who has been promoted to AIG, serving in the Force Headquarters.
The new Police boss gave the force’s assurances in combating crime, saying he intended to leverage on his wealth of experience gained over the years in ensuring professional policing.
Accordingly,the new police commissioner has instructed the command’s public relations office to create a platform for getting feedback from members of the public on crime hotspots in the state as well as behavioural approach to crime and criminality by men and officers of the command.
“ We’ll monitor all sections of the command.We’ll establish a special section to monitor crime in the state”, he said.
“We’ll pursue these criminals, we’ll apprehend them and chase them out of this state.Community policing is not just to arrest suspected criminals and hand them to the police,but we must also know the identity of those involved”, he added.
Okoli who spoke tough against corruption and extortion by men and officers of the command warned that any officer caught with evidence would be sanctioned,re-assuring however, that with the upcoming of the proposed social media platform by the command to checkmate crime as well as behavioural approach of police officers of the command there was the likelihood that there would be a professional command.

Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa.