Ekiti Police Begin 24 Hours Patrol Operation To Combat Kidnapping

By Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado Ekiti

Ekiti State Police Command has said it has decentralized the Response Squad (RRS) unit of the police to increase patrol operation across the 16 council areas of the state.

The Command said it had overhauled the state security architecture by embarking on 24hrs patrol across the length and breadth of the state in a bid to combat kidnapping, banditry and other forms of crimes as well as make Ekiti safe for all residents.

The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Babatunde Mobayo who stated this in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Saturday, said the operations would not be just for visibility policing but also raid criminals’ hideouts.

The police boss, who spoke through the Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Sunday Abutu, on Saturday, said the strategies put in place have started yielding results due to proactive actions taken by Ekiti State Police formation.

“We knew that kidnapping was a major challenge to our Command in the year 2020, and if you observe very well, you would realise that the cases are reducing even before Christmas and new year festivities.

“The last issue we experienced on December 31 was a self- kidnap and the person behind this and his syndicates who were perpetrators of this to extort a sum of N250,000 from a woman had been arrested.

“Due to a change of operational strategies, the operation SRS is now operating in all the local governments and our patrol teams are all over the roads monitoring situations.

“We are determined to fight kidnapping in Ekiti and we are ready to work with Vigillante groups, Amotekun corps, Agbekoya, and local hunters to achieve this task,” he said.

– The Nation