Community Policing Polo Tournament organizers have revealed that the tourney which has commenced at Abuja will promote and strengthen the bond between the police and the community through the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Halliru Jika notably because community policing was in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda.
The tournament’s Chairman Organizing Committee said the theme of the tournament was apt and would also serve as an avenue to create awareness about the new 2020 Police Act.
The chairman posits, “President Buhari has this idea of bringing the issue of policing and security closer to the community more than ever before especially in a difficult time as this where there is agitation for police reforms.”
“The whole concept of community policing came up when the Police felt the need to incorporate and carry along with the communities in policing the country. So, as representatives of the people, we are organizing this tournament as a way of contributing our own quota towards bridging the gap between the community and the Nigerian Police,” he said.
“This tournament has indeed come at the right time, especially because of all the negativity which have surrounded the Police Force in recent times and against the backdrop of the #EndSARS protests.
“But the media indeed has a very big role to play to enlighten the public on the 2020 Police Act which was just assented to by the President and passed by the National Assembly.
“We were able to review and amend over 150 clauses in the old Act and, as representatives of the people, we are there to make sure that the police implements to the latter those new amendments in the 2020 Act as the new Act which provides for Nigeria Police Force is more friendly to the society, as opposed to the one which is more `violent and forceful’.
