December 31, (THEWILL) – A total of 2,425 suspects were arrested by the Police Command in Kano State for various offences in 2024.
The Commissioner of Police, Salman Dogo Garba, disclosed this at the command’s End of Year Press Briefing, held at the Bompai Police Headquarters, Kano, on Tuesday.
Garba said the suspects included 1,987 suspected thugs (Yan Daba),189 armed robbery suspects, 34 suspected kidnappers, 58 drug dealers, 18 human trafficking suspects and 46 tricycle thieves.
During the year, he said the Command also rescued 40 human trafficking victims, 15 kidnap victims.
He said the Command also recovered counterfeit currencies equivalent to N129,542,823,000, cash in the sum of N48,923,000.00, 1,213 live ammunition, 57 cutlasses and 198 sharp knives.
Others, the commissioner said are 538 bottles of Bacardin Syrup, 12 motor vehicles, 44 motorcycles and 15 tricycles.
“The strategy in place is yielding positive results and will not only be sustained but will be improved upon.
“That is, the Command will continue to intensify community policing engagements, engage in robust Intelligence-led policing, conduct targeted clearance operations and carry out massive public enlightenment and sensitisation to meet the dynamic security demand of the State”, he said.
Abdullahi Yusuf is a seasoned journalist, communicator and was previously the Deputy Editor-In-Chief and Zonal Manager, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Jos, where he retired on December 15, 2021
