Following the rise within the stage of insecurity in some northern states, the Kano State Police Command has intensified joint safety patrol alongside the key highways that linked Kano with states which can be battling with banditry, kidnapping and different safety challenges.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Haruna informed The PUNCH in a phone interview on Sunday that the joint patrol is being carried out alongside main highways linking Kano State with Kaduna, Katsina and Bauchi states.
He mentioned as well as, the command had deployed various personnel on the infamous Falgore Forest which is situated in Doguwa Native Authorities space of the state.
Doguwa Native Authorities space shares borders with Kaduna and Plateau states.
Recall that prior to now, Falgore forest had been very infamous for being the hideout of cattle rustlers, armed robbers, bandits and kidnappers who used the place to perpetrate their heinous actions.
“We’ve made an enormous deployment of armed personnel to Falgore Forest which shares a border with Kaduna state as a part of measures being taken to test actions of bandits coming from that state (Kaduna).
“Though Kano State is just not experiencing critical safety challenges, we’re not relenting in our effort to make sure that the state is secure and secured,” Haruna mentioned.
In keeping with him, the police engagement with communities the place they’re being enlightened on the necessity to take part actively in offering related info on the actions of criminals can be yielding the specified outcomes.
“We’ve began the neighborhood engagement policing and it has began yielding fruitful outcomes as informants and different criminals are being apprehended in varied components of the state,” he mentioned.
He mentioned the state Police Commissioner, Usaini Gumel had directed Space Commanders and Divisional Police Officers throughout the 44 native authorities areas of the state to accentuate patrol throughout the state to test potential assaults by bandits.
“CP Usaini Gumel has requested all of the DPOs and Space Commanders to maintain watch on their areas of focus to make sure that the state stays peaceable.
“The proactive methods adopted by the Command and the engagement with members of the communities had vastly helped in retaining Kano peaceable,” the Police spokesman mentioned.
He mentioned the trouble was in furtherance of the directives and imaginative and prescient of I-G Egbetokun to all police instructions and formations to implement community-based policing, intelligence-led policing and the show {of professional} competence for efficient service supply.