Community Policing: Sanwo-Olu inaugurates operations' teams
Community Policing: Sanwo-Olu inaugurates operation team Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has inaugurated State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC) and State Community Policing Committee (SCPC), as well as their operation team. According to Sanwo-Olu: "The security initiative is long overdue, adding that the reform is being implemented with the objective to address inadequacies of the current policing model, which had failed to engage members of local communities and neighbourhoods in knowledge sharing and intelligence gathering that could help in nipping crimes in the bud." “ SCPAC will be co-chaired by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, and chairman of Council of Obas and Chiefs in Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, to maintain the highest level of oversight on community policing in the State. “ SPAC, on the other hand, will be responsible for managing and coordinating the State-level operations of the community policing programme, ...