Following the rise within the stage of insecurity in some northern states, the Kano State Police Command has intensified joint safety patrols alongside main highways connecting Kano to states experiencing banditry, kidnapping and different safety challenges.
The Public Relations Officer of the Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna, informed The PUNCH in a phone interview on Sunday that the joint patrol is being performed alongside main highways connecting Kano State to Kaduna, Katsina and Bauchi States.
He additional mentioned the command had deployed some personnel to the notorious Falgore forest, positioned in Doguwa native authorities space of the state.
Doguwa Native Authorities Space borders Kaduna and Plateau States.
Recall that the Falgore Forest was hitherto very notorious for being the hideout of cattle thieves, armed robbers, bandits and kidnappers who used the place to hold out their heinous actions.
“Now we have deployed armed personnel on a big scale to Falgore Forest, which shares a border with Kaduna State, as a part of measures being taken to verify the actions of bandits from that state (Kaduna).
“Though Kano State just isn’t experiencing any critical safety challenges, we aren’t relenting in our efforts to make sure that the state is secure,” Haruna mentioned.
In accordance with him, the involvement of police in communities the place they’re knowledgeable about the necessity to actively take part in offering related details about the actions of criminals additionally yields the specified outcomes.
“Now we have began monitoring group engagement and it has began yielding fruitful outcomes as informants and different criminals are being apprehended in several components of the state,” he mentioned.
He mentioned the State Police Commissioner, Usaini Gumel, had directed Space Commanders and Divisional Police Officers within the 44 Native Authorities Areas of the State to accentuate patrols within the State to verify attainable assaults by bandits.
“CP Usaini Gumel has requested all DPOs and Space Commanders to watch their focus areas to make sure that the state stays peaceable.
“The Command’s proactive methods and engagement with group members had immensely helped in protecting Kano peaceable,” the police spokesperson mentioned.
He mentioned the efforts had been geared toward selling the rules and imaginative and prescient of IG Egbetokun for all police instructions and formations to implement community-oriented policing, intelligence-based policing and exhibition {of professional} competence for efficient service supply.
