The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Jimoh Moshood, says the response time of his men to robbery and other public order offences is five minutes.
“Our response time to crime is less than 10 minutes. We have even reduced it further to five minutes. Once you call us, under five minutes, we are there,” the Police Commissioner said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday.
Moshood assured Lagosians that the state was secure and safe. According to him, the police get to the bad boys before they harm residents of the state.
He said most of the violent crimes in Lagos are constantly prevented by his men.
“For those crimes that couldn’t be detected, there is prompt detection to serve as a deterrence to others. For any would-be suspects who want to commit crimes, if you know that once you commit the crime, you would be apprehended, then definitely you have a second thinking about it but most of the violent crimes in the state are prevented,” the police commissioner stated.
“There is no doubt that state police are not the answer to our problem; proper police funding, which the Federal Government has taken upon itself, is the way forward. A lot of people who are advocates of state police don’t look at where unitary policing is working,” he said.
The police commissioner further said his men’s behaviour has changed over time, adding that they have successfully eradicated traffic robbery in Lagos.
