Kaduna: Police launch Anti Social Vice Unit, nab scores of suspects
By Austine Emmanuel, Kaduna
Kaduna state Police Command has launched Anti Social Vice Unit to curtail the menace of criminal activities in the state.
The unit will handle all cases of thuggery, phone snatching, drug and illicit substances consumption and peddling, possessing of dangerous weapons, among others.
In a press statement made available to Journalists in Kaduna on Wednesday, the spokesman, Kaduna Police Command, ASP Mansur Hassan disclosed that the move is an initiative of the State’s Commissioner of Police, CP Audu Dabigi, owing to the upsurge in thuggery, phone and female handbags snatching and drug related offences among youths in Kaduna state.
Mansur added that no fewer than 25 persons have been arrested across the metropolis in relation to the aforesaid offences with 16 among them arrested within Rigasa axis and charged for thuggery (sara-suka) and been in possession of dangerous weapons.
“Owing to an upsurge in thuggery (sara-suka), phone and female handbags snatching and drug related offences among youths in Kaduna, the Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Command CP A.D. Ali, psc has established a new outfit with the task of clamping down on all acts of social vices in the State.
“The unit which is referred to as the Anti Vice Unit has since started operating and will be liasing with all the Divisions to diligently handle all cases of thuggery, phone snatching, drug and illicit substances consumption and peddling, possessing dangerous weapons, etc.
“Consequently, no fewer than 25 persons have been arrested across the metropolis in relation to the aforesaid offences with 16 among them arrested within Rigasa axis and charged for thuggery (sara-suka) and been in possession of dangerous weapons.
“The Commissioner of Police Kaduna thus, charged the new outfit to make Kaduna State, especially the metropolis safe for the populace by continuously denying these urchins any operating space. He equally called on parents and guardians to warn their wards to desist from any act of delinquency,” the statement read.
