The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) says the continuous use of ‘outdated style of policing’ is largely responsible for the attacks on police facilities in the country’s southeast subregion.

In April, a group of unknown gunmen attacked and razed the Zone 13 Police Headquarters in Ukpo, Anambra State.

A similar attack on the Divisional Police Station in Obosi, Idemili North, resulted in the death of two police officers.

HURIWA, in a statement, said that the growing security challenges in the area was due to the lack of forensic strategy by the police.

The group advised the police and other security agencies to carry out proper investigations to ensure all perpetrators face justice.

‘We are cautioning the police not to use their old ways of rounding up certain suspects from wherever with the purpose of parading them hurriedly before the media as suspects in a given crime of high public notoriety just so the Commissioner of Police gets the accolades’, HURIWA’s Executive Director, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said.

‘The attacks targeting security institutions in the southeast and south-south are not the usual conventional crimes.

‘These attacks are so complex and sophisticated in nature that the policing institution in partnership with the Department of State Services (DSS) and the intelligence department of the armed forces of Nigeria should synergise their strategies and adopt technology-driven, scientific and evidence-based forensic investigations to actually arrest the authentic crime suspects so as to put an end to the attacks’.

HURIWA further called on the police high command to ensure only its best forensic investigators are deployed to check and help set in place measures to address attacks.

Source: HURIWA

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