PAC Articles

PAC Director-General's Address

An Address by the Director-General, Police Assistance Committee / Association of Tradesmen/Women and Artisans (Pac/Ata) in partnership with the Office of Senate Committee on Police Affairs, the Office of Minister of Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Military Intelligence, Paramilitaries and all Security Agencies, to Educate and Train Members of The Public, Stakeholders, Grassroot Members of Tradesmen / Women and Artisans Group on How to Combat Crime Through Information / Intelligence Gathering in the Country.

All protocol observed.

I welcome you all to this seminar/workshop organized to present an account of stewardship of the Police Assistance Committee (PAC) as regards our efforts to keep contributing our quota in the area of addressing the numerous security challenges confronting our dear country. You will recall that only recently we had a similar forum where we assembled major stakeholders from the Senate, The Police and The Military, saddled with the responsibilities to proffer solutions and suggestions on how our security problems could be confronted head-long.

EXPANSION / INTENSIFIED TRAINING BY PAC

The PAC in line with our mandate to keep assisting The Police and other security agencies in the country through intelligence gathering and information dissemination that could assist them in their operation to prevent and combat crime have been carrying out series of training programmes for our members both locally and internationally through organized seminars and workshops to teach ourselves on modern techniques to carry out our functions.

The PAC had intensified effort on conducting seminars/workshop to enlighten our members at the grassroots throughout the States and Local Governments all over the Country. Most of these seminars are being anchored and properly organized through Chairmen, Secretaries and PRO’s of Trade associations at the grassroots where they enlighten our members on the usage of on-line communication where information and intelligence gathering are passed-on to security agencies throughout the country.

In the same vein, we equally send our members to participate in international seminars/workshop on security matters organized by reputable bodies in other countries to address such matters. We are glad to say that PAC had continuously been expanding our scope of operations by relating with major stakeholders in the area of security both at the public and private sectors, such as extending participation at our seminars to CSO’s of corporate organizations.

 

Community Policing and National Security

A Position Paper by Police Assistance Committee (PAC). Information dissemination on the desk of your humble self in partnering with Security Agencies in fighting crime through intelligence and information gathering.

What is Community Policing?

Community policing is simply the involvement of the local members of the communities in the security matter of their immediate environment. It is the general mobilization of the people of all cadres – the youths, the adults, organized groups, working class, traders, artisans, retirees etc in engaging them to be actively involved in finding solutions to security problems within their immediate environment, by ensuring that they are vigilant in observing what goes on in their communities.

The overall essence of such mobilization of the people in their communal environment is to spur them into being informants to security operatives within their localities by gathering information and intelligence reports to assist the Security Agencies in their efforts to prevent, detect and combat crime within the society.

The PAC As Advocate of Community Policing

The Police Assistance Committee (PAC) and its affiliate body, Association of Tradesmen/Women and Artisans (ATA) since inception of its operation in 2002 has been engaged in what can be described as community policing. The modus operandi of PAC/ATA has always been to mobilize its members who are mostly traders and artisans embedded at the grassroots within the various communities where they operate their trades, for the purpose of gathering information / intelligence which they often transmit to all arms of security agencies, e.g. the Police, SSS, the Military Intelligence, NAFDAC, EFCC, NDLEA, ICPC, CUSTOMS, IMMIGRATION, NSCDC etc to assist the security operations. The PAC/ATA with a membership strength running into millions all over the country are located in every State, Local Governments, villages and hamlets in every nook and crannies all over the country, they are well organized trade associations and professional bodies with the primary task of ensuring that they sniff around for information that bothers on crime committal within their respective environment which they secretly pass on to security agencies at their localities. In fact, PAC/ATA if financially supported will solve the problem of advocation of state police which people are agitating for as they know more about people they are living with.

 

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