Lagos State Is Under-Policed – Sanwo-Olu

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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that the number of police officers manning Nigeria’s commercial hub is inadequate for the city.

“We believe Lagos State is under-policed in terms of the ratio. We believe that the population is also growing but we do not have the same growth in terms of the number of police officers that we have. That is some of the places where the imbalance lies,” the governor admitted this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

“If we can get the ratio right, if we can get the proportion right, then we can see a lot more activity; you can see a quicker response time between when it (crime) happens and when they respond.”

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Sanwo-Olu also said that the State Government can do nothing to increase the number of police officers in the State but assured that security officers will continue to get the government’s support.

“The minimum I can do is to up the skills and up the infrastructure and the equipment for the number we have in the Lagos State Command,” he said.  “We give them all the support that they require.”

According to him, there are ongoing talks with the Federal Government on the adoption of community policing as a means to tackle insecurity in Lagos State and the country at large, stressing that community-based policing has worked well in other parts of the world.