The Lagos State Police Command has urged residents of the state not
to report traffic robberies and other crimes first on social media
but to the nearest police station as that will help the police forestall
further occurrence. The Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), DSP Joseph Offor, made the appeal on Monday, November 9.
According
to The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Commissioner of Police, Mr
Fatai Owoseni, lamented that Nigerians have the habit of reporting
crimes first on the social media. He
also spoke about how some distress calls were actually blown out of
proportion and advised the residents to always verify their information
before causing panic.
Offor added that making false reports of
crime incidents on social media was a cheap blackmail against the
leadership of the Nigeria Police.
"People should
endeavour to
report every road traffic robbery to the police station so that we will
know who to hold responsible. This will help us to strategise and come
against those people behind the crimes. We
are not denying the fact that we have a couple of traffic robberies
here and there but we have arrested some of the suspects. We have also
prevented some of them that were about to be committed. When somebody is
a victim of a crime, he knows where to go," Offor told NAN.
"If
you go to a police station to report, it will help us to have the
statistics of crime being committed in that area; it will also help us
in our planning. It will help us in our research but when people
decide to report their cases to the social media, we see it as a cheap
blackmail against the leadership of the Nigeria Police. And this is
worrisome because it is not helping our statistics." he added.
Source: NAN
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