Police to rehabilitate 400 school dropouts in Gombe

As part of efforts to reduce crime, Gombe State Police Command has restated its commitment to train 400 school dropouts on skills acquisition to become self reliant.The state Police Commissioner, Austin Iwar stated  this yesterday during the Second CP’s Conference, with senior police officers at the State Police Headquarters. He said: “Efforts are currently being […]

As part of efforts to reduce crime, Gombe State Police Command has restated its commitment to train 400 school dropouts on skills acquisition to become self reliant.The state Police Commissioner, Austin Iwar stated  this yesterday during the Second CP’s Conference, with senior police officers at the State Police Headquarters.
He said: “Efforts are currently being made by the command to assist over 400 youth who dropped out of school under ‘Gombe state back to school programme’ organized by the command with the aim of rehabilitating them and thereby reduce crime rate in the society”.
Iwar said  the police saw the need to give more attention on the youth with a view to engage them in activities that would change their behaviors and reduce their number in crime. Commissioner said efforts had been made to improve on the command proactive policing measures by giving more attention to the youth through addressing issues responsible for deviance among them.
He said: “As a committed and proactive police command, we realized that security problems like any other problem which if it must be solved, the root cause need to be identified and dealt with. Again we realized that the youth form the bulk of offenders, and to address most of the security challenges, there is need to tackle youth problems.”
Iwar said the police through collaborative efforts with the state Ministry of Youth Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation, Ministry of Education, and other major stakeholders had organized workshops and awareness campaigns for the youth with a view to proffer solutions to identified problems responsible for youth crimes and social vices.
The commissioner said:  “Apart from embarking on improved strategies to mitigate youth violence and restlessness, the command assisted in improved safer school programmes, development of Crime Prevention and Community Safety Strategy, deployment of Tactical Operation Points, among others.”
He said police had also been able to record reduction of crime rates in the state. The state had 87 cases of crimes and 48 recorded accidents between September to October 2015 as against 246 crimes and 53 accident cases recorded in July and august 2015.