To ease security threat in Tongo and the surroundings and to also beef-up bilateral relationship between community members and the security sector, the Local Unit Commander-Tongo Police Division-Chief Superintendent Stephen Tucker, has staged his first familiarization meeting with members of the Local Policing Partnership Board (LPPB), Area Policing Partnership Committee (APPC), Chiefdom Security Committee (CSC) and other key actors at the Tongo fields community center.
Representatives were drawn from different works of lives and are all security minded.
One core mandate of the LPPB is to engage communities to fight crime in cooperation with the police. LPPBs are thus seen as a bridge between the police and communities.
It is on this backdrop that the newly promoted LUC embarked on rekindling the already collapsed anti-crime-body in the division.
The concern sharing meeting according to the chief superintendent is in anticipation for effective & efficient policing.
“This meeting is to strengthen our union with members of the various communities and to help cushion crime rates. Police have never succeeded in any fight without the services of community members, we want to live in a threat free society and that can never be achieved without civil interventions”, the Local Unit Commander stated.
Highlighting challenges, the commander was quick to cite the lack of mobility.
“We are intensely challenged here by the lack of mobility. For swift intervention on matters, this division is in dire need of sound vehicles”, he opined.
Chief Superintendent Tucker called on all to give supportive hand for excellent service delivery.
Daniel Jonathan Coker is the vice chairman for local policing partnership board in the division. He expressed delight over the resurrection of the board and registered his membership’s continued supports, banking on their desires.
The police media boss for Eastern Region who serves as a special envoy to the session also showed enormous amusement over member’s turnout.
Inspector Prince Barnard Jaygboi Kamara whilst calling on residents to support the division re-echoed the importance of Police-Community Relations, citing the good yielding dividends it has manifested in crimes over the years in the district.
Other speakers including the operations officer, divisional traffic officer, OSD boss, Line Manager FSU, Divisional Crime Officer, Community Relations Officer, and heads of different representative groups made similar contributions.