New Kano CP vows to address security challenges
Story from Shafa’atu DAUDA, Kano
Police under the leadership of the new Commissioner, Abubakar Lawal, has reassured of its determination to curtail all forms of criminality in Kano state.
The new Commissioner of Police (CP) disclosed this while addressing officers and men in Kano.
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He said the command would adopt a new strategy tagged Operation Restore Peace in Kano State which would tackle the menace of thuggery, drug abuse and other heinous crimes within the state.
CP Lawal explained that Operation Restore Peace is a replacement for Operation Puff Adder which the command will apply in all the police components to strengthen the capacity of its tactical units and divisional offices.
He stressed that anti-crime strategies will be incorporated into the command’s action plan that comprises robust community policing engagements, intelligence-led policing, visibility policing, use of technology in tackling crimes, and synergy with sister security agencies and community policing stakeholders.
The CP further maintained that the command will strengthen its Public Relations Department through massive public enlightenment and sensitization on radio, television and social media with the aim of enlightening the public on the importance of revealing information to security agencies, geared toward curtailing security challenges.
The commissioner who assumed duty on the 26th August 2022 as the 43rd Commissioner of Police of Kano State, said that he had on arrival met concrete structures of policing strategy in the state which he pledged to improve on and sustain after studying the demographical crime map and an action plan was analytically designed to effectively police the state.
CP Lawal directed all Supervisory Officers to work in accordance with the provisions of the Police Act 2020, and the Constitution Republic of Nigeria while also keying into the policing mission and vision of the Inspector General of Police to restore professionalism to the Force that Nigerians can truly trust and depend on to achieve the policing mandate enshrined in Section 4 and 5 of the Nigeria Police Act, 2020.
The CP solicited the cooperation, support, and encouragement of all citizens of the state and promised that no stone would be left unturned as far as fighting crimes and criminality was concerned.
