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Policy Framework for Community and State Policing in Combating Rising Security Challenges in Nigeria
Author(s)
Ngozi Nwogwugwu, Adebusola Morenikeji Odedina
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2018.06.003
Affiliation(s)
Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Viability of
decentralizing policing in Nigeria had been on the front burner of security
discourse since Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999. Valid points
had been put forward by both those in support and those in opposition. The
Community Policing Department of the Nigeria Police had remained more of an
administrative unit with little impact beyond the Police Community Relations
Committee activities. Rising cases of herdsmen attacks of various communities,
terrorist insurgency in the North-East, kidnappings across the different
geo-political zones had resulted in the need to interrogate the efficacy of
effective community policing and state policing as viable options to combating
rising security challenges. The study adopted qualitative method, and being a
library research relied entirely on secondary data. Sources of data included
journals, relevant textbooks, newspapers, magazines, and materials downloaded
from internet. The paper argues that the traditional security agencies had
failed to effectively combat the many security challenges that Nigeria faces.
The combination of the official security agencies and the military had failed
to effectively combat insecurity in the country. The local vigilante groups on
the other hand had made valuable inroad in curtailing some of the security
challenges including terrorist insurgency as a result of their knowledge of the
terrain. The paper concludes that to effectively combat the many security
challenges, there is a need for new policy framework at the federal and state
levels that would decentralize policing and give legal backing for
collaboration between the official security agencies under the federal
government and state security outfits including the vigilante.
KEYWORDS
community policing, state policing, security challenges, policy framework, vigilante
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