{"id":193671,"date":"2020-02-14T11:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193671"},"modified":"2020-02-14T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:25:15","slug":"nigerias-police-boss-adamu-announces-fusion-of-community-policing-into-amotekun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193671","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Police Boss, Adamu, Announces Fusion Of Community Policing Into Amotekun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/02\/BREAKING-Nigeria\u2019s-Police-Boss-Adamu-Announces-Fusion-Of-Community-Policing-Into-Amotekun.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, has announced that community policing would be integrated into \u2018Operation Amotekun\u2019 recently established by governors of the six South-West states.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu made the disclosure in Lagos on Thursday during a meeting with governors of the region.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThis is the second meeting we have held with the governors of the South-West region concerning the creation of Operation Amotekun. The just-concluded meeting was to discuss and fine-tune Amotekun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmotekun is not a regional security outfit. Every state has one form of security arrangement, whether it is vigilante or neighbourhood watch that is working security agencies in the states to fight crime. Amotekun is not different from these initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have agreed that community policing strategy be infused into the Amotekun structure so that policing will be the initiative of the community members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Adamu, the police would be part of the recruitment, training, and deployment of personnel to be assigned for the new security network.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, has announced that community policing would be integrated into \u2018Operation Amotekun\u2019 recently established by governors of the six South-West states. Adamu made the disclosure in Lagos on Thursday during a meeting with governors of the region. He said, \u201cThis is the second meeting we have held with the governors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,14098,61],"class_list":["post-193671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-amotekun","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193671","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=193671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}