By Sumaila Ogbaje
The National Chairman, Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Alhaji Ibrahim Olaniyan, has solicited for support for the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force to be able to adequately fight crimes and criminality in the country.
Olaniya made the call while donating Ramadam relief materials to Muslim personnel after Juma’at prayer at the Police Force Headquarters Mosque in Abuja.
He said the police deserved all the needed support to enable them perform their policing duty effectively to make the society crime free.
According to him, our Police is not Ghanian or Gambian Police but Nigeria Police, therefore, let us support their efforts to make our society crime free.
As part of its activities in ensuring adequate support for the Nigerian police in executing it constitutional mandate, the PCRC, paid courtesy visits to Inspector General of Police, Police Service Commission Leadership and Police Officers Wives Association (POWA).
The committee also donated some items to the ccommission’s leadership, to help cushion the hardship encountered by the Muslim personnel during Ramadan.
The PCRC chairman said the committee was in the commission to congratulate him on his appointment and to let him know that they were vigorously building on the legacies he established as the 18th Inspector General of Police.
He said that PCRC currently had offices outside the country, such as Canada and United Kingdom.
PCRC is a community policing based organisation established by the leadership of Nigeria Police Force in 1984 to foster a partnership between the Police and the community with a view to enhancing efficient and effective policing of communities in Nigeria.
PCRC will be 39 years old on May 8.