Alhaji Yerima Shettima, the president of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, has claimed that it is ineffective to send police personnel from one region to another, like sending a Hausa man to Imo State, because they are not conversant with the dynamics of the local population.

He underlined that state police or community policing in Nigeria is desperately needed and long overdue. He made the point that different law enforcement agencies work in tandem with the federal police in every modern country.

He promoted state or community policing, arguing that these programmes would support the efforts of the federal police by offering crucial local intelligence for catching offenders.

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In an interview with The Sun, he stated, “We are ripe for State police and it is long overdue for establishment of state police or community policing. In every developed nation, you don’t concentrate only on the Federal Police.”

“In the United States, there are over seven outfits that I can remember that complement the efforts of the Federal Government. So, the case of Nigeria should not be different, especially as it is today.”

“You do not take a typical Hausa man to Imo state and you expect him to perform. It will not work because most of these jobs are done within the community and the crimes are being committed within the community.”

“So, for me, if we have community policing or state policing, they will work to complement the efforts of the Federal police and pass necessary information that will help to fish out criminals because every criminal has a community”

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