The National Chairman, the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Alhaji Mogaji Ibrahim Olaniyan, has said members of the committee were ready to take up the assignment of the rested Police Constabulary, without salary, as their contribution to national security, especially in the country’s critical period of national development.
Olaniyan made the proposal to the Chairman, Police Service Commission (PSC) DIG Hashimu Argungu (retd.), Monday, when he led a delegation from across the country to the Commission’s Corporate Headquarters, Jabi, Abuja.
A press statement by the PSC Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, said the national chairman commended President Bola Tinubu, for the appointment of DIG Argungu (retd.) as the chairman of the commission.
Ani said the delegation included PCRC officers from the national, zonal and state leaders, who were received by the PSC chairman and the management of the commission.
He said the PCRC chairman stated: “We have lawyers, doctors, engineers, and we are ready to give the Police one million volunteers for crowd control.”
This he said will free the Police to handle some other challenging assignments.
The PCRC chairman said the Committee was ready to support the Federal Government in this direction as Community Policing Officers.
On his part, the Commission’s chairman noted that the public are the police, stressing that without their support and cooperation the police will not make a success of their duty to maintain law and order and ensure security across the nation.”
The spokesperson stated that, “DIG Argungu said it is the public that will give the Police information for their work, adding that without this information, it will be difficult for the Police to fight crime and criminality in the country. According to him, it is the absence of crime that shows or confirms that the security agencies were working and not the number of bandits arrested.
He said the commission will continue to partner the PCRC and advised that they should not relent in assisting the Police from the divisional level, through the state and national level.
“You need to continue to assist the DPOs, Area Commanders, Commissioners of Police Zonal AIGs and the Inspector General of Police ” he noted.
The PSC chairman declared that the Committee has rendered sacrificial services to the nation and urged that they should not be discouraged.