Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu, has charged members of executive of the Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vice (POCACOV) to redouble efforts in sustaining advocacy in discouraging the teeming youths from joining bad groups.
He gave the charge on Thursday, when he received the Zonal and New Executives of the POCACOV, at the Command headquarters in Awka.
POCACOV is an approach that involves community-oriented policing, which emphasizes collaborative engagement with communities to prevent cultism.
The organization has introduced innovative strategies, including school and community outreach programs, partnerships with youth organizations, and media campaigns to spread its message and effect change in tackling crime and social vices, particularly among young people.
A statement by the Command’s spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the collaboration was part of the strategy to improve the safety and security in the State.
The CP charged the members to redouble their efforts in sustaining advocacy to discourage the teeming youths in the State from joining bad groups.
He also pledged to support the Campaign as his administration is already in contact with relevant agencies in the State to roll out initiatives that would instill values, morals and character traits among the youths.
The leader of the delegate, Contact and Strategic Communications, Engr. Humphrey C. Nsofor, stated that the visit was to foster partnership and synergy between POCACOV and the Anambra State Police Command.
The visit further aims to work out plans to establish cultism-free communities in Anambra State, a menace that has cost the State significantly in both resources and security.
Highlights of the event is the presentation of Certificate to the newly appointed members by the Commissioner of Police.
