Anambra state governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has directed the leadership of 179 communities in the state to respectively select a total of 50 indigenous males and females for conscription into the newly introduced community police.
The South-east states had two weeks ago adopted community policing initiative of the Nigerian police as a way of tackling the lingering security challenges across the country.
Obiano, who made the call at a security summit held in Awka, gave the community leaders one month to forward names of the contingents to the government, adding that they would be trained and appointed Special Constables with uniforms.
He said the team constituted in line with the community policing initiative of the Nigeria police, should be unanimously selected by their traditional rulers, presidents general, youth leaders, women leaders, vigilante leaders, Divisional Police Officers and other critical stakeholders so as to ensure they were persons with impeccable characters.
On his part, the Commissioner of Police, Anambra state command, John Abang, commended the state government on what he termed its proactive security arrangement, assuring that the community policing would help in straightening the state security.
Earlier, the special adviser to Governor Obiano on Creative Security, Air Vice Marshal Ben Chiobi (rtd), explained that the meeting was aimed at bringing together all stakeholders in the state including the political leaders, traditional rulers, the clergy and others to brainstorm on how best to take the state security to an enviable height.
