The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has inaugurated a mobile police unit, the Squadron 63 Mobile Police Base Igbogbo Baiyeku, Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
The Squadron 63 Police Mobile Force (PMF), headed by a superintendent of police, was equiped with anti-riot policemen to curb killings in Ikorodu area of Lagos.
The IGP represented by Mr Folusho Adebanjo, a deputy inspector general of police, while commissioning the unit urged cooperation of residents to the new security unit in order to maintain peace and order.
He said “Ritual killings, murders, kidnappings, armed robbery and others have become features of Ikorodu and this experience brings the urgent need to strengthen security around Ikorodu and the environs.
“The community should collaborate and support the new security unit by providing useful information to curtail insecurity in the area.”
Speaking also at the event, Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Imohimi Edgal, said that the establishment of the PMF squadron base in Ikorodu would help curb crime rate in the area.
“Community policing and safety partnership is working and I can promise that the year 2018 is going to be more of action and less talk.
“Squadron 63 is here, in the next one week you will see their deployment and of course crime rate will reduce drastically,” Edgal said.
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