Christian George
A retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Imohimi Edgar has revealed that a good intelligence network will help police fight crime.
The ex-AIG made this known in an interview on Vanguard online published on Saturday.
He disclosed that a good intelligence network had helped him while in active service to reduce criminal activities.
According to him, “I am not saying that once in a while, it will not happen because you cannot prevent all crimes from taking place. But if you are proactive, and you can only be proactive if you have a good intelligence network, there were lots of serious crime issues we had in Lagos, that we dealt with based on cooperation, based on synergy, based on intelligence.”
Edgar who burst the notorious cult gangs including the Badoo Boys, Awawa Boys, 1 Million Boys etc, were terrorizing the city almost daily in Lagos as a commissioner of police stressed that he leveraged on community policing to weed away criminal elements.
He said, “Why did I talk about community policing? It is because that was the centrepiece of my strategy as police commissioner in Lagos.
And you know that when you talk about community policing, you are talking about in simple terms, community involvement in policing and telling the people that it is their responsibility to police themselves, putting forward intelligence gathering and intelligence dissemination in the forefront of your policing activities.”
