The Inspector–General of Police (IGP) Mr. Ibrahim Idris has been urged to look into the positive and negative implications of the proposed neighbourhood policing by some state governments.
In a letter to the Deputy Inspector of Police, Mr. Josak Habila, the chairman of Zone Two Command PCRC, Archbishop George Amu said such a security organization for community policing would have great negative effect and compound security situation in the country.
Archbishop Amu who is the vice chairman Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), 17 southern states chapter, pointed out that the proponents of neighbourhood policing might mean well, but at the end of the day, it would be abused by politicians against their opponents or to score political points. Archbishop Amu marked is 76th birthday recently
Amu, who was the chairman of PCRC, Area ‘F’ Police command when Mr. Habila was the Area Commander, said the proposed neighbourhood policing would have four negative problems: it will serve as a parallel body to the current General Police Force; the funding will lead to massive fraud, whereas the police force is not well funded, so we will not like this to tarnish the image of the IGP.
He explained that neighbourhood policing would be used negatively by the politicians. He recalled that since the Police established the PCRC 25 years ago it has been helping the police force in the area of welfare and intelligence gathering without failure, while the body is non ethnical, non religious , non-political and fully independent, and has been functioning without government funding for the past 25 years and liaising with the Area Commands.
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