Mr. Kayode Egbetokun
, the acting inspector general of police (I-G), encouraged Nigerians to refrain from complaining about police officers on social media.
At a stakeholder gathering On Tuesday,
at the Police Command Headquarters in Oyo State, Egbetokun offered the advise..
Nigerians, according to Egbetokun, should feel free to report any complaints they may have about police officers to the police commissioners or any other senior officers who can guarantee that justice is served.
“If you have any complaint against the Police, don’t go to social media. Go to the Commissioners of Police in the state.
“Some of our men will misbehave, we cannot guarantee that all of them will behave well. Report to the CPs or any superior officer who will take it up and ensure justice is done.
“There are a lot of falsehoods going on on social media. If you need clarification, go to the Commissioners of Police or Police Public Relations Officers (PPROs),” he said.
Egbetokun said his mission of Police administration was to put in place professional, service-driven, rule-of-law-compliant and people-friendly police officers.
He said he was desirous of having a Police Force that would be able to respond adequately to the dynamics of crime and criminality in society and “ensure citizens sleep with their two eyes closed.
“Modern policing is community-based, technology-driven and intelligence-led. We are going to focus on community in all the states of the federation. But we are shifting on new policing strategies.
“We are going to adopt community policing by taking cognisance of certain peculiarities of each community through collaboration with other security agencies and state-owned security outfits to fight and reduce crime,” the Acting Inspector-General of Police said.
He called for the cooperation and support of all stakeholders to achieve results and rid the society of crime and criminality.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the leadership of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII) and representatives of traditional and religious leaders attended the stakeholder meeting.
Leaders of the Igbo and Hausa communities, as well as the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), were present.
In his remarks, the National Chairman of PCRC, Ibrahim Olaniyan, pledged the readiness of the committee to keying into the community policing strategy of the IGP.
Also speaking, the Chairman of CCII, Alhaji Niyi Ajewole, said Oyo state and Nigeria as a whole have started witnessing good results immediately Egbetokun took over as the acting I-G.
Ajewole requested for more Police Mobile Units in the state, saying the current two units in the state were not sufficient based on the vastness of the state’s territory.
The I-G was at the meeting with a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) , Sylvester Alabi, and the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of the Force’s Zone II, Yomi Oladimeji.
NAN reports that the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Adebola Hamzat, annd several others were also with him
