IGP EGBETOKUN VISITS LAGOS COMMAND, CHARGES OFFICERS TO SHUN EXTORTION
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
…. IGP Egbetokun, Commissions CRU, Hospital and Vocational training center……
The Acting Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, paid a maiden visit to the Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, to launch the first Police Complaint Response Unit, the state-of-the-art hospital and vocational training center, newly built inside 22 Police Mobile Force in Oduduwa, Ikeja, GRA, Lagos.
During his visit, Egbetokun, charged officers in Lagos, to shun extortion and demonstrate transparency, integrity and professionalism in the discharge of their duties.
This is Kayode Egbetokun’s first official visit to Lagos since he was appointed by President Bola Tinubu.
While commending the Lagos Commissioner of Police for the prompt establishment of the Police Complaints Units, the Police boss said that the establishment of this CRU will promote accountability and build the confidence of the members of the public in the police force, while assuring Nigerians that the nation will begin to experience improved security.
He assured that the members of the CRU will be carefully selected and given trainings including overseas trainings.
He said, The CRU will promote transparency; we want to build confidence in the minds of the public; we have also enhanced public collaboration to achieve all these; and whoever has a complaint now has a place to lodge it.”
“We have been making efforts to reduce crime to the absolute minimum, and we have, and those terrorizing Abuja-Kaduna Road, the South East, and other parts of the country, I want Nigeria to give us time; they will soon see our actions everywhere.
“Today we have launched CRU. We will take all these things one after the other.”
“I want to assure Nigerians that we want to make the CRU and other parts of the command functional, and the officers that will man the unit will be professionals who have impeccable character, and they will receive regular training.”
He thanked everyone who has supported the project so far while appealing they should not relent in their support in Lagos State.
He however, pledged that before the former Nigerian Bar Association President, Olumide Apata, completes the CRU in Delta and Edo state, he would have finished the one in Ogun state while approving five patrol vehicles and two trucks to the command as requested by the CP.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, while speaking during the commissioning of the newly established unit said, ” In addition to its ethical complaint functionality, the Lagos State Complaint Response Unit has applications for e-crime reporting, which enable citizens to report crimes from the comfort of their homes or offices without necessarily coming physically to the Police Stations.”
“The process is that the Lagos State SCRU model will act as a central criminal complaint clearing house which will electronically receive such complaints and process them to the relevant police Division, Department or Unit within the command, who will, in turn, contact the complainant, to whom a reporting code would have been generated and issued, for investigative actions to commence.”
He added that, “The applications that have been placed at the Unit also have tools to support the computation, analysis, and graphical presentation of statistics on complaints, both on crimes and complaints against police conduct, as may have been processed through the Centre.”
” This is the best global practice in professional standard evaluation, accountability and criminal investigation processes. “CP Owohunwa also said:
He also stated that “this is the standard Lagos State deserves. This, sir, is the standard we are striving to integrate into policing functions in Lagos.
“The Lagos State Complaint Response Unit, which is an ultramodern and full-fledged Call centre, will be under the supervision of the Command’s Public Relations Officer as prescribed in the Police Act 2020.
It will be active twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week and citizens can interface with operators who will run shift duties on nine (9) different dedicated phone lines. ”
CP Owohunwa The services of the Unit can also be accessed in real-time via WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Weblink, Instagram, and e-mail, and all the officers to man the centre have been exposed to weeks of specialised training and practical exposure with the support of our technical and corporate partners.”
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