 The Cardinal State Police Command is committed to improving community policing, to strengthen trust and understanding, enabling the Mandarin police force to be more effective in service delivery. State Commissioner ACP Abdul Qadir Yahya emphasized the importance of community participation and adds religious and traditional leaders to support the improvement of police performance. Community policing is a partnership with the members of the public and the police cannot police the community in isolation. Why police is adopting community policing is because it's easier to solve policing issues in the community. A crisis or a problem that's supposed to take one month for police to solve, if you partner with the members of the community you will solve it within less than one week, which is cheaper. And the more the police work with the community, the more you create trust. And the more you create trust, the more you attract people to come close to you. And the more they come close to you, the more you give them service, good service delivery. Police need to change its attitude. The community need to change their own attitude. Because there are situations where you will see that the community are the one lowering police for corruption, the other one lowering police for problem. You will insist on doing the right thing, but they are the one that will go and call other people for pressure on your head to bend the law. It is all of us that's supposed to change our attitude and do the right thing. Dr. Mohamed Shafa, Executive Director of IMC, aims to create a new mindset and understanding between police and citizens in Nigeria. He calls for a police force that is people-focused, not authoritarian. The children of the community leader urges Nigerians to ensure peace among citizens and restore confidence between the public and police. We realise that police service delivery cannot be effective without us as community, as citizens, participating in our role. As much as we blame the police, we failed to play our own effective role in complimenting the effort of the police. Not only failing to compliment the police, our legislative arms have also failed to give the police effective means. So therefore we feel that what will the citizens do to make it better? How do we create citizen-focused policing in Nigeria? The world of stereotypes, the world of prejudices between us and the police have to diminish. We have to break those walls. Or else we will now have a repeat of the answer. Of course, we may have the repeat of what? Of the answers even if not something is not done immediately. And that's why we take this initiative to see by 2024, before the 2027 next election, we will be able to have police that is people-focused. Not police force, authoritarian, power-focused driven, but people driven police in our country, Nigeria. The Police Act 2020. Wonderful big things upon the same year. But one thing that has also happened that many are just partaking today is the bathroom of trust-building police and care as a result of a new serious incident. We will discuss more about and insane that we have to share to you and we will see how best we can explore close to that act which talks about specific objectives which underlines the community policing. Our officers, police men are the stations. They are the ones that cause a lot of havoc to the community. Once there's no confidence between those parties, I think we will find it very difficult to understand. I understood that there is a way they can checkmate what is going on. But unfortunately, seeing the systems has no good checks and balances. That's why a general officer or the stations will do something is not being punished. That means there's a lot of work the police need to do for them to have this confidence within and around people in the community. Otherwise, we'll continue to go that way. People are afraid of going to police station. That's intimidation. Confidence building is what we need and everybody should be a participant, a participant in ensuring that this piece exists among us and the confidence between the public and the police. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.