Police, churches tackle crime in Aba

At a meeting, the police and leaders of various churches agreed to collaborate more, and that the churches would intensify efforts in grooming good citizens.

Aba Area Commander Peter Wabara, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, told our reporter at the end of about three hours of talks with the church leaders that the police were collaborating with the churches because of their role in inculcating good moral values and virtues in parishioners.

According to the Commander, “We are only trying to deepen our community policing policy as directed by the (Acting) Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Kpotun Idris who on assumption of office, directed that committee of eminent persons be set up in order to widen consultation with critical stakeholders in the business of policing, that the committee of the eminent personalities was inaugurated in Umuahia by the Abia State Commissioner of Police, CP Adeleye Onyebade.

“What we are doing is a follow-up and we have identified religious bodies as critical stakeholders as people that we should partner with to enable us reach out to a larger percent of the populace as part of our strategy and campaign to checkmate crime and criminality in Aba and the state at large.