By Bashir Mohammed
Kano
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase, has described the issue of lending high credence to professional conduct as the “best way to promote and imbibe an effective police force” that would ginger the confidence of the public that the police was not an enemy of everyone.
Addressing officers and men at the Kano state police Command yesterday, Arase said the world “is now operating at a supersonic speed as far as modern policy was concerned,” stressing that for the force to move forward the issue of effective intelligence gathering must be accorded the priority it deserved.
He said the police must also strive to ensure that they gathered a substantial intelligence data in confronting the issue of high profile crimes, adding that no suspect should be clamped into detention for more than 48 hours except on certain extra ordinary circumstances.
Arase said his leadership was ever willing to make the issue of capacity building among officers and men as its major cardinal thrust, affirming that in the world of modern policy the issue of intellectual depth was gaining special preference for the business of policing to reach the apogee of excellence.
He stated that no country could ever attain the height of greatness in a professional field like the police with mediocrity taking the centre stage, lamenting that over the years the force was faced with the spectre of competing demands which still remained the force major albatross.
On personnel’s welfare, the police boss maintained since he came on board he had effected policies aimed at injecting succour into the minds of officers and men who were saddled with the business of bursting crimes, stressing, however, that without motivation the issue of achieving spectacular result would remain a mirage.
He said his administration had also effected the promotion of no fewer than 36,000 officers and men for their individual effort in proving their worth as true professionals in their fields, adding that “in the next few days to come many more would adorn their new ranks.”
Speaking earlier, Kano state Commissioner of Police , Alhaji Musa Muhammad Katsina, said since he came on board, he had designed a workable blueprint aimed at combating the issue of terrorism by employing a subtle intelligence means to identify various terrorists enclaves to enable his men descend on them.
According to him, the issue of cattle rustling in thick forests and other clandestine hides out was almost nipped in courtesy of pre emptive attacks on the target of the vicious rustlers who had been having a field day perpetrating their dastardly acts with levity.
He said many cattle owners had had their stolen cows returned, adding that 3,313 cows had been given back to them following massive raids carried out by the police on several occasion.
He added that the issue of rape and drug abuse had almost become a recurring decimal which he was confronting with.
