POLICE Inspector-General Mohammed Abubakar has promised that the Nigeria
police will now strengthen partnership with communities to identify potential national security threats.
Speaking on Saturday in Gusau at the opening of a one-day Intelligence Sensitisation and Community Partnership Workshop, Abubakar, who was represented North West AIG Suleiman Fakai, said the new partnership will henceforth be the central strategy to tackling security challenges in the country.
Partnership with communities would now take “central role in preventing and responding to terrorism and reducing citizens’ security concerns,” he said adding that the measure will serve to strengthen the security situation in the country.
He said through community vigilance, an effective policing of the society would be ensured as more useful information on criminals and their activities would be forthcoming.
He said the workshop, which also involved the participation of media practitioners, would encourage newsmen to assist in reducing tension.
He said through feedback methods, “the media can also help to monitor and evaluate government performances to meet the minimum expectations of the people”.
Gov. Abdulaziz Yari, who was represented by the Commissioner for Local Government, Muttaka Rini, expressed readiness to always partner with security agencies to ensure peace in the state.
Yari said government would always support the agencies with logistics to enhance their performances in the protection of peoples’ lives and property and ensure peaceful coexistence among the communities.