The Police Assistance Committee (PAC), a security support non-governmental organisation (NGO), has called on the police and other security agencies to imbibe an open door policy by collaborating more with its members for the proper policing of the country as the yuletide approaches.
Dr. Martins John-Oni, the organisation’s Director-General, who spoke on the sideline of the just-concluded two-day security workshop for his members in Lagos, urged Mr. Abubakar Idris, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), and other security chiefs to ensure that their officers and men extend hands of fellowship to the PAC members.
Oni urged Idris and his colleagues in other security agencies to encourage the PAC members to synergise with their operatives, stressing that his officials had been properly trained in information gathering and dissemination in the past two decades.
The PAC boss maintained that his members, comprising chairmen, secretaries and Public Relations Officers (PROs) of traders associations and artisans, as well as Chief Security Officers (CSOs) of public and private establishments, had been supporting security agencies with intelligence reports as informants over the years to ensure that crimes are nipped in the bud.
Oni enjoined the police and other security chiefs to promote better cooperation and understanding among the PAC officials, Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) and other voluntary organisations who perform functions of information dissemination to security agencies.
He stressed the need for people to be more security consciousness during the yuletide, even as he called for more vigilance and alertness by the public and ensuring that suspicious movements are reported to security agencies before any havoc could be committed.