Police arrest, prosecute 3,000 suspects in one year in Kano

The Commissioner of Police successful Kano State, Usaini Gumel, has said the bid nether his ticker arrested and prosecuted nary less than 3,000 suspects for assorted offences successful the past year.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Gumel said those arrested included suspected kidnappers, banditry, equipped robbers, quality traffickers, illicit cause dealers and thugs.

He listed the achievements during an interactive league with journalists connected Thursday successful Kano arsenic portion of activities marking his 1 twelvemonth successful office.

Within the period, helium said, the bid besides received and profiled 623 repentant thugs, who are presently engaged by the authorities authorities successful assorted life-changing empowerment programmes.

According to the commissioner, the command, besides successful the past year, flushed retired suspected criminals who occupied the historical Dala Hill and utilized it arsenic a hideout from wherever they launched mayhem and assorted transgression activities.

By truthful doing, helium said, the suspected not lone attempted to destruct a large awesome of Kano’s history, Dala Hill but astir destroyed a world-class tourer attraction.

“Thus far, the involution of the Police Command has made the historical tract harmless and unafraid for each residents of the area, visitors, and the radical of Kano State,” helium said.

Under the Inspector-General of Police’s Safe Schools Initiative aimed astatine improving the information of lives and property, particularly the information of schools and students, MrGumel said, the bid launched the School Protection Squad (SPS).

He said it was meant to supply capable information to each schools crossed the state, particularly those on borders with different states.

“The SPS, comprised of 60 personnel, was provided with the tools for the task and dispatched to intensify and found robust patrols astir each superior and secondary schools, and tertiary institutions crossed each senatorial district,” helium said.

“I indispensable confess that it has been a privileged accidental fixed to maine by the Inspector-General of Police, done which I americium serving the assemblage with tremendous practice from the bully radical of the state.

“As the 45th Commissioner of Police successful the Command, communities successful the authorities person had their just stock of information challenges’’, helium said.

According to him, this is particularly the menace of daylight and nighttime mobile telephone equipped robbery, thuggery farmers and herders clashes, and different convulsive transgression activities.

“Other heinous crimes see kidnapping, the menace of infiltration of bandits on borderline LGAs, particularly Falgore and Danshoshiya forests.

“There was besides buying and selling of minors, centrifugal conveyance theft, cross-border organised crimes, and illicit cause dealings, among others’’, helium told journalists.

“Through corporate efforts, we succeeded successful warring and bringing down the question of transgression and criminality successful the State,” Mr Gumel told newsmen.

A breakdown of the activities showed the apprehension of 337 equipped robbery suspects,66 suspected kidnappers, 90 suspected cause dealers, 83 centrifugal conveyance thieves, 62 tricycle thieves, 86 motorcycle thieves and 200 suspected petty thieves.

Also arrested were 61 suspected fraudsters, 9 suspected amerciable forex hawkers, and 2101 suspected thugs.

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Those rescued were 29 kidnap victims and 65 trafficking victims, portion recovered items were six AK-47 rifles, 1 SMG rifle, 3 Beretta pistols, 1 anti-riot gunner, 8 double-barrel guns, 2 Makarov pistols and 5 English pistols arsenic good arsenic 54 locally made guns.

Also recovered were 44 Dane guns and 14 artifact guns, 83 unrecorded ammunition and 30 cartridges, 215 centrifugal vehicles,84 tricycles and 116 motorcycles; 3,079 mobile phones, and 990 cartons of fake and expired drugs, among others.

(NAN)