The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has said the police will now strengthen partnership with communities to identify potential national security threats.
Abubakar said this on Saturday in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, at the opening of a one-day Intelligence Sensitisation and Community Partnership Workshop.
Abubakar, who was represented on the occasion by the AIG, North West Zone, Suleiman Fakai, said partnership with communities would now take “central role in preventing and responding to terrorism and reducing citizens’ security concerns.”
The measure, according to him, will also enhance national security, protection of lives and property and stabilise democracy.
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.”
Governor 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.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting was attended by top police officers, security agents, traditional rulers, newsmen, politicians and NGOs from the zone and the Force Headquarters.
NAN.
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