All of a sudden in our faces and culture, security trend has taken
a new turn in Nigeria. Indeed, Crime in various dimensions. The unexpected
fortune is always making the news round in various categories rising from
theft, armed robbery attacks and off course, kidnapping. This challenge has
become unprecedented in It self. Is this bad in itself?
I should think so. But
then, if the rages of performance of the security agent can be a sign that
proactiveness and responses is on the ascendant, then adding voice to hope
would have been actualized at last. But indeed, many observers fear the worst.
The first point of entry is parharp to ask if really the concept of community
policing and the level of responses in time of distress are truly done by the
security agent within our environment with utmost sincerity. Indeed, we can
only prove this with the levels of crime rate, the views of the inhabitant and
other relevant stakeholders like the police community relationship committee.
This bring us to the maladies that have in recent time plague urban
centers today in crime were criminal activities are assuming dangerous tendencies and not only
threatening lives and properties but national sense of well-being and
coherence. But just in case someone is thinking of prancing forward to sound
indigent and very surprised, let it be said for the record that there is
nothing essentially surprising here we are only tailoring the trends of
reality: the situation is bringing social problem, reducing the citizen’s
quality of life. The much expected factors like urbanization, traditional
structure and value system are indeed in necessity in that, it is relational in
the admixture of positive and negative trend that revolve round it.
For instance, criminal behavior is naturally undermined and
unfortunately, has deleterious effect on the livability of urban dwellers and
indeed, it is believed to be the inevitable part of the security provision
since the bottle neck arose from such. The Nigerian police numerical strength
is not commensurate with the total population of one police to five hundred
Nigerian unlike in developed countries with one police to about four hundred
people. What is a bit new is that the upheavals of rural urban migration that
occasionally add-up to the already existing urbanization and the challenges
that comes with it within our communities are in the negative, encourages many
people to take solace in crime, making observer to have more question than
answer as to whether the system actually functions regularly or not at all.
This aside, there are also often the butt jokes from some of the
distillation process that is found to be rigorous in there institutional frame
work. Some of there members were actively and deliberately discouraged from
taking there delusional mode of operation too seriously, which In-fact allows
the system run the risk of having them let loose. In the case, diligent and
swift approaches have always remained a solving solution. Beyond the foregoing,
there is the matter of whether there is truly some form of
surveillance and responses in igando environs. When thoroughly compromised the
level of responses and proactivenes in time of distress, many observer in the
habitat of igando believe that the pre-primary level of surveillance by
security agent is practically unregulated, and any means of taking due
advantage of such can be leveraged with this. Minimizing
visual obstacle and the elimination of political criminals for protection
against crime may come in handy for any one who already has such intention,
given the fact that settlement remains a place of aboard for different
individual with various socio economic strata. All communities that is of heterogeneous settlement that have tried to
ascertain the level community policing by giving it a trial were shock to
discover that over average of these conceptual frame work is indeed in reality
of what has made many sleep with their two eyes closed. We need not say
anything other than to encourage the new divisional police officer in charge of
regulating and overhauling the organizational manipulations with reality
principle that support the changes it desires. The synergy of successfully
sharing of intelligent gathering between the vigilante group and the police is
one of the out come of what igando environment has turned out in achievement.
The confusion of who said
what has ravaged the preponderance of sustaining the continuous harmonious
relationship of the police community relationship committee in igando, which
has thoroughly, hinders the relationship between that community and the police.
Today, the rest is history. A related problem, but one which neither the police
nor the community rarely considers in time of security evaluation is the
settlement pattern of igando environment. Looking at the spatial relationship
of residence, one will agree that such location are found with the admixture of
the innocent and offenders in a population concentration in a particular place
of settlement of such, and indeed making it more cumbersome and inevitable to
identify those with such negative intentions. That brings us to the phenomenon of
overcrowding and apparently one out of numerous circumstances that is
responsible for different crime committed at igando environ.
The fact that the inner-city is dominated by land owning native born residence in the Peri-urban area of the metropolis; it is by no means a multiplier effect that seems more on social division in igando environs that is exacerbated by the spatial distribution of criminal of different categories, given the existing pattern it portrays. On basic features of crime surveillance is that its gates are open to legitimate intelligence reports while its bowels are conceived to stem crime, at least to an understandable level. Bringing these to bear was when a gallant officer came on board, had an encounter with him in time of distress when armed robbers came to igando environment, an SMS was sent to his phone, and immediately he replied and wrote; we are there already; was amazed by the encouraging response that came almost immediately in more proactive manner in the wee hours of the night. After all that transpired at night with the uncomfortable sporadic shooting that ravaged every where with close sound range. It was as if the shooting was taking place right in my bed room. That was how sophisticated the weapon was indeed. Decided to put my journalistic instinct to play the penultimate day it occurred, went to the office of the divisional police officer.
On getting there, curiously
he said painfully’ this has never happened to me since my joining the force,
where we had an emergency alert, and in response, we moved swiftly towards the
scene, had a gun duel with those men of the under-world and in the process, we
lost three of our officers.’’. I was touched by that submission, an indication
that he was truly a security strategist; Igando witnessed in the past, an
institution of trouble in term of response to crime and without any-form of
surveillance that would have helped to combat crimes of various kinds.
Reincarnation has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the efforts of
scientist who, in an attempt to disprove it through regressive hypnosis, ended
up with the opposite conclusion. It is also against this background of the
foregoing that one is constrained to comment on the impact made on igando
environment through proactive response and diligent surveillance that has since
been yielding desired results. It was through this excellent surveillance and
proactive response in time of distress, Benjamin osuji came to the picture.
Chief Superintendent of police, with vast understanding of rapid response that
has being paying off. A man is as old as he thinks indeed, this is so true when
the thought of community policing has become
Effective in igando
environs. Resuscitating police community relationship committee and bringing
positive responses between the police and the residence. Until recently, his
responses paid off again when kidnappers were apprehended at the inception of
assuming duty. As gallant as he was, he had a stint as the field commander when
the federal government inaugurated a task force against pipeline vandal. On
assuming office, punch newspaper describe it as dooms day for vandals knowing
him to be a no nonsense person in the recent past. An officer with candor,
always stand tall in any responsibility given. The drive of the inspector
general of police on professionalism through intelligent gathering has begun to
yield fruit in igando environment. Even though there are disagreements in some quarters
that heinous crimes like kidnapping are alien to our nation, it will be more
meaningful condescending with it by repositioning our police contingent
like the way Osuji has done with a divisional headquarters that is just
a division other than lamenting.
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