The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, on Friday, unveiled a special committee to establish a centre for domestic, gender and sexual-based violence.
Owohunwa said the committee comprised different NGOs that were into gender, domestic and sexual-based violence issues in Lagos State.
He said the command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, and the Officers in Charge of the Gender Unit, Medical and Works were members of the committee. Owohunwa said the committee was set up with a view to having a befitting centre under the command, where the crimes mentioned would have all the attention and investigations they deserved.
He said the mandate of the committee included to work out and design a centre or work on the existing one to reflect the purposes for the unit.
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