Citizens and community stakeholders in Katsina State have submitted a Charter of Demands to the Commissioner of Police during a two-day Police-Community Engagement Workshop held at Hillside Hotel, Katsina. The event was facilitated by the CLEEN Foundation with support from UNDP and GS Foundation.
The forum brought together traditional rulers, religious leaders, youth and women groups, civil society organizations, and local residents. It focused on strengthening police-community relations and enhancing public safety.
While participants commended the Police Commissioner for ongoing efforts to secure the state and decongest detention centers, they raised several concerns across six key areas: communication gaps, weak policing strategies, lack of accountability, poor police welfare, low institutional capacity, and rising insecurity including drug abuse.
They also demands:
Improved communication and trust-building between police and communities, Creation of regular dialogue platforms with civil society groups, Strategic response to distress calls and stronger community policing.
Ensuring that bail is truly free and protecting the identity of informants, Better welfare, supervision, and proper deployment of police officers, Enhanced training to handle gender-based violence and uphold human rights, Participants called for the immediate implementation of these demands and proposed the formation of a Police-Citizens Action Monitoring Team (PCAMT) to oversee follow-up actions.
The CLEEN Foundation emphasized that the recommendations reflect the collective voice of Katsina citizens working towards a safer, more accountable, and inclusive security framework.
