It is safe to say that Nigeria policing, though, administratively Federal, is operationally community-based in nature.
What Federal Government probably failed to understand in the agitation for state governments-led community policing is that the governors are not interested in controlling the Police to fight conventional insecurity; rather, they want to control the Police for election and other political purposes and nothing more. It is obvious that Nigeria is currently grappling with politically-induced insecurity.
Now, what is community policing? To me, the concept of community policing has so much to do with the operational structure, notwithstanding whether it is within the context of Federal or State Policing. Another offline dictionary defines it as a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common. Based on these definitions, how can we practise states-led community policing in a multi-ethnic states like Kogi, Adamawa, Plateau and Rivers?
Now, if two regions out of six go into community policing, what happens to the remaining four regions? The fact is state-led community policing will amount to a moving anarchy in Nigeria. But the protagonists of this variant of community policing, will argue that Britain and the US are good examples of state-based community policing.
Inspired by that, other Democrats-controlled states in the US also encouraged anarchy in their domains. This is the greatest problem of state-led community policing. The agitators of this variant of community policing are only interested in controlling police for political ends.
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