The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Inaghe Itam, has been urged to overhaul Police formations in the State to strengthen the capacity of the Command to combat the growing insecurity in the State.
The Campaign for Democracy (CD) in the South East and Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) in a joint statement made available to journalists in Awka, the Anambra State capital said that there should also be a massive transfer of officers and men of the Command especially those who have stayed up to five years in a division, formation or any police department.
In the statement signed by Dede Uzor A Uzor, chairman of CD in the South East and Executive Director, HURIDE the rights groups said any Police officer who has stayed in a place for about three years should be moved.
Said the groups: The Divisional Heads, officers and men of the Command who have stayed up to three years should be involved in the massive overhaul of the rank and file. More proactive officers who are ready to work should come in”.
They alleged that some officers and men have so much stayed in a particular place that they have become so familiar with the people even the criminals which has rendered them ineffective.
Some, they said, have become so corrupt in their place that it has hamstrung them from effectively carrying out their anticrime activities.
For departmental and divisional heads, the groups said the Commissioner of Police should conduct investigation and monitoring to find out those who are not proactive and corrupt, would occupy sensitive formations.
“He should conduct a discreet investigation on them to move out lazy and corrupt ones who have posed a hindrance to effective Policing of the State* said the rights groups.
Continuing they said: “This is not the era of sit-tight or Sit down de look Policing but the era of operational responsibility. These are days security operatives should be on high alert and more active.”
