The Community Safety Partnership (CSP), will continue to partner with the Niger State Police Command and other relevant security agencies in ensuring the safety and the security of the citizens, the Chairman CSP in the State, Engr. Danjuma Akpasu has assured.
He disclosed that CSP was an initiative of the British based organization known as “Justice for All” (J4All), aimed at partnering with the police towards community policing participation and ensuring the safety of the communities.
Engr Danjuma Akpasu who made the disclosure during a courtesy visit to the Commissioner of Police in Niger State, Mr. Monday Bala Kuryas explained that the CSP as a non-govermental organization was established to synergize with the relevant security agencies particularly the police in the area of intelligence gathering and intervention in addressing youth restiveness mechanism, stressing that the visit was to inform the Commissioner of police of the activities of the organization.
According to Engr. Akpasu, the organization under his leadership has within the last two years able to intervene in the activities of youths restiveness in some areas in Minna and its environs, adding that the intervention has brought about peace in the affected areas.
He told the Commissioner of Police of the CSP’s preparedness to assist the Command with relevant information on the activity of some men of questionable characters within an identified blackspots in Minna and its environs for prompt action.
He pointed out to the Commissioner of Police on the need to deploy his men to some identified spots within some communities along Minna Gwada road where the activities of some strange movement in the area posed a security threat to the residents of Maitumbi and Shakwatu area in Minna with the aim of checkmating their activities.
Receiving the CSP executive, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Monday Bala Kuryas commended them for the visit and assured the CSP of the command’s readiness to extend the hands of partnership to CSP.
He said the police as an organization only relied on relevant informations from members of the public to perform effectively in the discharge of its police duty.
He assured that his Command will swifly act on any information received from the public on the activities of any strange movement within the state stating that such vital information will not be treated with laxity.
Although, the Commissioner of Police noted that Niger State is peaceful as compared to other states in the country with violent crimes, he explained that activities of armed bandits posed a challenge to his command.
“I must say the state has a record of peaceful co-existence as compared to the other states I have served.”
He requested the executive of the CSP to always feel free to synergize with his men and officers of the Command with the needed intelligence gathering that would enable the command to leave up to its responsibility of the protection of lives and property of the citizens.
