WARRI/Nigeria: The newly transferred Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of ‘B’ Police Divisional Headquarters, in Okere Urhobo Kingdom, Warri South Local Government Area, Mr Ayoola Olawole has promised to practice policing with the fear of God.
Mr Olawole, a Superintended of Police (SP) made the promise in his during his working visit to Okere Urhobo Community on Tuesday February 5th, 2019.
He noted that policing should add value to life of the people and not otherwise maintaining that the police were a friend to the society and that bail remained free.
The DPO who remarked that Okere Urhobo was the most peaceful of all the communities under the police divisional headquarters solicited for the continuous cooperation of the people of Okere Urhobo Community.
While promising to put a stop to the practice of arresting suspects in the divisional police headquarters to other police stations he urged the people to always provide the police with useful information, assuring that such information would be treated with utmost confidentiality.
Mr Olawole warned against the practice of jungle justice, noting that a suspect was deemed innocent until convicted at the court of law and admonished youths in the area against cultism and electoral violence, saying “You do not gain anything by belonging to a cult.”
He assured that police would provide a conducive atmosphere for free, peaceful and fair elections in the forthcoming general elections and advised youths of the community not to allow themselves to be used as thugs by unscrupulous politicians.
“The value of your lives is priceless. Politicians do not use their children for electoral violence and they not go to jail for electoral violence either. It is their thugs that go to jail for electoral violence,” He stated.
The Chairman of Police Committee Relations Community (PCRC) in the area Christopher Otumu, had earlier commended of community in promotion of peace.
Comrade Cyril Eboh and Chief Bright Okumagba (President of Okere Urhobo Development Movement and representative of Okere Urhobo chiefs) respectively assured the DPO of the continuous cooperation and support of Okere Urhobo Community in the prevention of crime.
They pleaded that the community should be given its due recognition as host to the divisional police headquarters, suggesting that when the need arose, the police should always get in touch with leaders of the community in order to build on the existing cordial relationship between the police and the community.
