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Effectiveness Of The Law Enforcement Agency
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The relationship between police and citizens must be informed by the
ethical and professional principles that allow for the effectiveness of
their function. One of the challenges to community police units is to
maintain peace and. When Law is violated, crime has been committed. This
study seeks to focus on the Law Enforcement Agency (Nigeria Police
Force) in crime control and prevention. The law enforcement agency in
the real sense of the term according to Iwarimie-Jaja (1991:74), refers
to criminal justice agency (federal, state or local) which perform the
principal functions of prevention, and the apprehension of alleged
offenders. By enforcement of the law Nigeria Police Force reflect the
ideological interest and priority desired by the controllers of the
state as observable in intractable competitions.
Throughout
the length and breadth of our nation Thompson (1986), posted that
innocent citizens are gripped with the fear of armed men, hoodlums, and
vagabonds who perpetrate their evil with reckless abandon.
Our society has ever since been witnessing an unprecedented upsurge of
criminal activities ranging from conventional, victimless to
white-collar crime, especially “pen-robbery†which is now almost
institutionalized. Any nation plagued with this magnitude of social
problem which people sign as they pass by make comments like it’s too
bad, will no doubt look for solutions. It is on this basis that Nigeria
Police Force has come to stay.
According to Ogunleye
(1976:250, duties of the police are defined in section 4 of the Police
Act as “the prevention and detection of crime, the apprehension of
offenders, the preservation of law and order, the regrettable, it is
only the latter that law easily punishes because of their vulnerability
whereas the former is let go with impunity.
Up till now the
public fails to acknowledge the fact that the role of the police in our
society is the defence of the right and property of the bourgeois,
consequently, the police has been singled out as escape goat for all the
ill of the society. It is from the context of the corrupt society we
all belong that allegation of inefficiency and corruption consequently
levelled against the Nigeria Police be viewed.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In Nigeria today, the problem of Insecurity has risen to its highest
level, corruption, crime, communal disturbances as in the case of the
recent Communal Killings of Farmers by the Fulani Herdsmen, religious
intolerance and the likes in Nigeria is a cause for serious concern.
What nation loses as a result of violation of criminal law cannot be
quantified. Not only is the economy dragged to the base continually, the
image of the nation will need a great quantity of detergent to be
laundered both home and abroad.
Therefore, the important
questions are: How do we rid crime out of our society? Could it be
controlled or prevented? What are its remote causes? The police have
made series of efforts aimed at controlling and preventing crime yet not
much has been achieved.
Many people have lost their lives,
property, money and even intangible things such as reputation, joy,
peace due to crime they committed or those of others. Could the
inability of the police to achieve a crime free society be attributed to
the socio-economic structure of our society, absence of sophisticated
equipments to combat crime, poor communication network, outright
bribery/corrupt practices among the police? Hence, these questions put
low the integrity of the police and places one in a valley of indecision
as to whether the Nigeria Police Force has the interest of the nation
at heart.
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