Bose Adelakun |
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has assured Nigerians that the nation will begin to experience improved security.
The IGP also admonished policemen in Lagos State to shun corruption and other vices that may damage the image of the force.
The IGP gave the speech during the commissioning of the Police Response Unit and other projects in Lagos State.
The Nigeria Police Force boss, while speaking with newsmen in Lagos, said, “We have been making efforts to reduce crime to the absolute minimum, and we have, and those terrorising Abuja-Kaduna Road, the South East, and other parts of the country, I want Nigeria to give us time; they will soon see our actions everywhere.
“Today we have launched CRU. We will take all these things one after the other. ” The police boss also stated:
IGP Egbetokun continued, “The CRU will promote transparency; we want to build confidence in the minds of the public; we have also enhanced public collaboration to achieve all these; and whoever has a complaint now has a place to lodge it.”
“I want to assure Nigerians that we want to make the CRU and other parts of the command functional, and the officers that will man the unit will be professionals who have impeccable character, and they will receive regular training.”
The GP commended the Lagos Commissioner of Police for the prompt establishment of the Police Complaints Units
The Lagos CP, Idowu Owohunwa, while speaking during the commissioning of the PCU, said, ” In addition to its ethical complaint functionality, the Lagos State Complaint Response Unit has applications for e-crime reporting, which enable citizens to report crimes from the comfort of their homes or offices without necessarily coming physically to the Police Stations. ”
” The process is that the Lagos State SCRU model will act as a central criminal complaint clearing house which will electronically receive such complaints and process them to the relevant police Division, Department or Unit within the command, who will, in turn, contact the complainant, to whom a reporting code would have been generated and issued, for investigative actions to commence. ”
