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The Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), an initiative of the Nigeria Police Force under IGP Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, has commenced its community peace building programme, with its stakeholders drawn from members of the community across the country.
This was disclosed to newsmen after the virtual meeting with POCACOV’s national coordinator, CSP Ebere Amaraizu, state coordinators, ambassadors, stakeholders and POCACOV Volunteer Club members which was coordinated on November 6, 2020 at the IGP M.A Adamu Pocacov Resource Centre Enugu.
POCACOV is aimed at saving Nigerian children and youths from the claws of cultism, substance/drug abuse, sexual and gender based violence, and other vices through youth advocacy, sensitization programs as well as mentoring in line with the tenets of community-oriented policing.
According to the initiative’s national coordinator, CSP Amaraizu, POCACOV as a community driven and oriented programme working with different stakeholders to achieve safer schools and communities under its community peace building programme, will be interfacing with members of the community to ensure cordial relationship between the Police and members of the public.
It is imperative that every community member must share the responsibility of preventing crime as if they were all volunteer members of the Force, he said.
He emphasized that Police need the trust, confidence and support of the community to advance justice and ensure public safety, adding that this is why POCACOV is working with different stakeholders in the community using community oriented policing approaches, as well as galvanizing their support to achieve peace, safety and security.
Amaraizu pointed out that the recently concluded Community Peace Building programme at County Grammer School Ikwerre Etche, Rivers State, tagged ‘Peace Be Still’ is a case in point and urged all coordinators, ambassadors, stakeholders and volunteers to identify with the POCACOV scheme.
The police cannot be separated from the public because they are the public and the public are the police, he said.
Participants at the POCACOV virtual meeting, drawn from all the states across the federation, expressed their willingness to work towards the sustenance of the POCACOV Community peace building for a safer school and community in line with Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institution) of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
