Cross River: Police move against cultism, campus violence

The Cross River State Police Command has announced plans to found the Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices, POCACOV, astatine the University of Calabar , UNICAL, arsenic portion of measures to tackle cultism, violence, cause maltreatment and different crimes connected campus.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Ajo Geoffrey Ordue, disclosed this erstwhile the Vice Chancellor of UNICAL, Prof. Offiong Offiong, and members of his absorption squad visited him astatine the Command office successful Calabar.

Ordue said the inaugural would supply a proactive level for sensitisation, quality gathering and engagement with students and different young radical to forestall transgression and different societal vices.

He besides called for stronger engagement with youths up of the forthcoming elections, informing against governmental thuggery, online incitement, integer thuggery and different forms of youth-driven violence.

The constabulary brag said the Command would proceed to follow assemblage policing, transgression prevention and intelligence-led strategies successful concern with tertiary institutions to support lives and property.

He stressed ...