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<\/p>\nAdamu gave the warning at a meeting with zonal commanders and state commands across the country, on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
He warned that the police would not hesitate to dismiss and prosecute any officer involved in extra-judicial killing and abuse of office in the course of carrying out his duty, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
Adamu said that supervising officers of erring officers would also be held responsible for the actions of their subordinates.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurthermore, you as the line supervisors of such erring officers shall be held vicariously liable for supervisory negligence by being similarly sanctioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me re-emphasise here that our primary responsibility is to protect the lives and property of the citizens we were engaged to serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a sacred duty and no level of justification should underscore our being engaged in any act that negates this responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is our sole responsibility as the lead internal security agency to make the country safe for all citizens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The IGP said that the unprofessional actions of some policemen had led to lack of confidence and trust in the police and had impacted crime prevention capacity of the force.<\/p>\n
He said that the meeting was aimed at reviewing the existing security strategies and to evolve new architecture towards addressing the challenges.<\/p>\n
Adamu added that the meeting would review the security challenges and engage the officers on challenges that may be inhibiting their performances on the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour performance, sense of commitment to duty, and professional competence in this instance remain critical to the ability of the police to prevent or optimally respond to these crimes.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He said that the police would soon fully resuscitate, re-organize and expand the operations of the \u2018Safer Highway Patrol\u2019 Scheme.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is with intent to enhance visibility policing within the public space and particularly, at vulnerable areas across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are also exploring the concept of Safer City where CCTV technology will be optimally engaged to support our operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Adamu said that the police was also exploring the possibility of establishing a National Crime Analysis Centre to collate analysis and dissemination of criminal intelligence to support operations.<\/p>\n
He called for the cooperation of the citizens to enable the police provide adequate security for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need the support of the citizens, for it is only when we present a common front that we can defeat a common enemy that threatens our communal values,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu, has warned Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and Anti-Kidnapping Squad Commanders against extra-judicial killings and abuse of office. Adamu gave the warning at a meeting with zonal commanders and state commands across the country, on Thursday in Abuja. He warned that the police would not hesitate to dismiss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}