The Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV) has concluded modalities to partner with the Nigeria Correctional Service and other relevant stakeholders in the administration of criminal justice system as well as with the newly established National institute for Police studies headed by professor Olu Ogunsakin with a view to coming up with a module that will address and discourage the issue of the youths re-entrance to correctional service custody.
According to the National coordinator POCACOV, CSP Ebere Amaraizu; “We at POCACOV are worried by the rate at which some of our youths go back to the correctional service shortly after they have been discharged and acquitted from the correctional service custody and the survey conducted by IGP MA ADAMU POCACOV Resource Centre reveals that most youth who were recently discharged from the correctional service custody end up going back to the place by committing another crime.”
Amaraizu maintained that there was need for proactive action to be in place to checkmate the ugly trend and to do that; “The IGP MA ADAMU POCACOV Resource Centre will be partnering with all relevant stakeholders including some of the youths that have been discharged with a view to developing a module that will serve as a lasting solution thereby saving our youth from this issue of re-entrance into custody.
“The module will among other things, seek for a way of making a positive pathway for them and guiding them properly through a well coordinated sensitization programme.
“The module shall seek to discover why our youth are eager to commit crime and get back to custody; a situation which is worrying the Nigeria Police Force and necessitated this approach aimed at curbing the incidences .
“This move which is problem solving is in line with the tenets of community oriented policing,” Amaraizu reaffirmed.
