Police Lives Matter; All Lives Matter, Says HURIWA
……….Demands non kinetic steps to stem the tide of violent attacks on police operatives:
HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned the indiscriminate violent attacks targeting mostly Police operatives by insurgents from all parts of Nigeria just as the Rights group has asked the Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba to roll out strategies for practical revitalization of the moribund police community relations committee to abridge the gulf between police and the policed.
HURIWA said the quantum of hatred for the average police operative in Nigeria by the civil populace is mind-boggling demanding that quick win steps are adopted to bring this sentiments of hate to a quick end.
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Besides, HURIWA which says no reason is strong enough to justify the massive targeting of armed policemen on their line of duty, however stressed that the police hierarchy at both the National and sub national levels are grossly lacking in the enforcement of strong deterrent administrative sanctions against indicted police officers who still carry out extra judicial killings of suspects in the police custody across the Country.
The Rights group said it is in the self enlightened interests of the police as an institution that extrajudicial killings are stamped out immediately and indicted rogue police operatives prosecuted for mass murders and sanctioned judicially in very transparent court sessions.
“The belief that citizens can just be executed like chickens inside police cells and there is no accountability opens the policing institution up for bottled up angst which have no exploded into full blown ‘civil war against police operatives’ which must be brought to a quick end immediately.
HURIWA blames the inactive, inefficient, ineffective Police’s Human Rights desks for the widening chasm between Police operatives and civilians even as the group said it is impossible for the policing institution to achieve any level of success in crime prevention and control without a robust and constructive dialogues between police and the good people of Nigeria because human intelligence is key to resolving near intractable crimes.
