The Governors’ Forum comprising all the 36 state governors called for it. Long before their clamour, the 2014 National Conference Report had strongly recommended state and community policing. What is more, the police authority themselves have long recognized the necessity for some form of augmentation by way of community policing. In 2003, the Nigeria Police sent some of its men to Britain to train in community policing. “The Lagos Security Trust Fund gave the Lagos police command two helicopters, 300 patrol vehicles among which were mobile workshop vehicles, 60 patrol motorcycles.

Source: The Guardian October 26, 2023 09:53 UTC