By Jack Acheme, Kano
The Commissioner of Police Kano State North western Nigeria, CP Mohammed Gumel says the crime price in essentially the most populous state within the nation has drastically dropped within the final three months as phrases are being matched with motion to get criminals out of their den.
CP Gumel began this throughout an interactive session to mark his 100 days in workplace, with Journalists from the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Kano.
He mentioned with the help of group policing, intelligence-led and technology-driven policing numerous crimes within the historic industrial metropolis have been pushed to the wall.
“With my 100 days old as CP Kano State Police Command, I’m happy to say that the ugly heads of the violent crimes I met have been pushed to the wall.
“With no single report of undetected Mobile Phone Armed Robbery and related violent crimes during the last month,” he mentioned.
According to him, “over 1,000 suspects were investigated in the period under review with most of them still behind bars awaiting trial for offenses ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping, cattle rustling, culpable homicide, thuggery, having deadly weapons, drugs trafficking, sales and consumption of dried leaves suspected Indian hemp and alike.”
He mentioned consistent with the imaginative and prescient and directive of the Acting Inspector-General of Police, the command has been using each kinetic and non-kinetic approaches within the type of fixed raids of legal hideouts and black spots and collaborative policing the place some recognized people behind the escalation of thuggery actions, social vices and different violent crimes within the State had been invited.
“As a result of the employment of these initiatives, a total of one hundred (100) repentant violent criminals and notorious thugs (Yan Daba) have surrendered themselves including their weapons to the Police Command.
“The unrepentant ones are trooping out of the State to escape the heat of smoking them out of their comfort zones. Currently, the repentant ones are working with the Police for the promotion of sustainable peace, economic growth, and development in the State,” he added.
The CP additionally mentioned that in lower than 24 hours, with the help of expertise, six individuals who had been concerned in coursing mayhem throughout a ceremony on the Hasiya Pediatrics hospital in Kano have been arrested.
He mentioned the arrested suspects weren’t invited however got here to disrupt the programme whereas chanting slogans for the substitute of the present Emir of Kano Aminu Ado Bayero with the deposed Emir of Kano, Mallam Sanusi lamido Sanusi.
He mentioned objects recovered amongst many, within the interval beneath evaluation embody: Sixty-Eight Bags, 659 Parcels and 1063 Wraps of Dried Leaves Suspected to be Indian Hemp, 117 Armed Robbery Suspects.
Others are Thirty-Four Suspected Drug Dealers, 18 Motor Vehicle Thieves, 117 ATM Cards, 82 Mobile Phones, 4 POS Machines, and eight Laptop Computers, 117 Armed Robbery Suspects, 25 Suspected Kidnappers, Six Suspected Cattle Rustlers, and Seventeen 17 Human Trafficking Suspects.
He mentioned the command would do every thing to maintain Kano, the second greatest industrial metropolis in Nigeria protected whereas urging residents to volunteer actionable data to the police.
