The Imo Police Command has said it arrested at least 200 suspects in the past three years, in connection with the various killings and other heinous crimes in the state.
The command’s Public Relations Officer2 , ASP Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Owerri on Sunday.
The PPRO stated that in the wake of the rising insecurity, the command rolled out security strategies aimed at crippling the activities of criminally minded elements, hence was able to achieve the feat. He, therefore, allayed the fear among the residents that the police and other security agencies had been overwhelmed by the security situation in the state.
“The Commissioner of Police , Mohammed Barde, has mandated Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and Tactical Team Commanders to embark on an intelligence-driven and community policing-oriented strategy in the fight against criminality in the state,” Okoye added. However, a rights advocacy group, known as the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre , disagreed with the police assertion on the damming security breaches in the state.
The rights activist blamed the security challenges in the state on criminal gangs of different hues as well as “the high-handed and brute force response” by both formal security agencies and state-controlled security outfit – Ebubeagu.
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