 The rule of law and archantability center, RULAC, says effective police, archantability is key to bridging the gap between the force and the people. The executive director, Kechukwu Wakuma, said this at a stakeholders' police archantability forum. Wakuma, who spoke on the state of human rights and police, archantability said violations steal the cause since the end says protest, hence the need for more engagement of the police with civil societies and the community. The National Human Rights Commission also corroborates this position. A lot of controversy arose, and as we speak, not much has been done in terms of implementing the white paper on that panel, and from our experience as human rights monitors, we keep receiving complaints of human rights violations from victims of human rights violations, and our experience is also that unless some of these cases are publicized, the police don't seem to feel compelled to take action. So issues of archantability remains challenging, so we think that not much has improved in terms of human rights violations in Lagos state. There's not how we can do community policing without the community engagement, and there's not how we can send policemen on duty without holding them accountable for whatever action they take in the course of their duty. So certainly this engagement is very, very important. In fact, National Human Rights Commission, we have only one office in Lagos, but we have CSOs who are spread all over the states, who also work in collaboration with the Commission. We cannot be everywhere, you understand? But they are always at the field to bring information. So certainly there is need for the police to actually engage every CSO from the grassroots even to the state. Oaguma explained that the forum is determined to sustain the temple to ensure effective engagement with the police. We think that it's important that the police needs to be up and doing, you know, make accountability a priority because it is said that you can't be talking about community policing or democratic policing when accountability is lacking. So that is important for the police to note and to see the importance of engaging. Because CSOs live with community members and they understand their challenges and they are able to, you know, act as a bridge between the community they represent and the police and this has helped to address a lot of.