Doomsday Awaits You In C-River – Police Warn Criminals

BY UBON EKANEM, CALABAR – The Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, Mr Augustine Grimah has declared that all criminal elements and their cronies should be ready to meet their Waterloo in the State going forward.

He said already, there is no hiding place for perpetrators of crimes and criminality in the state, courtesy of the strategic partnership and synergy among security agencies.

Making the doomsday declaration in Calabar, the State capital, Mr Grimah told newsmen that the successes recorded by security agencies so far are engineered by Governor Bassey Otu’s strategic next level approach to crime fighting, saying this has gone a long way in boosting the morale of security personnel.

The Police boss, who paraded suspected armed robbers, kidnappers and ritual killers, warned criminals to either tow the path of repentance and change from their unholy ways or be ready to face the long arms of the law.

He disclosed that a joint crack team of security agents were able to burst the criminal gangs of dare-devil armed robbers who specialize in intercepting and emptying petrol tankers and trailer loads of goods along the Biase-Ugep federal highway.

Grimah said these criminal elements usually administer drugs and some chemical substances on the drivers that make them unconscious while their goods are carted away their goods and the vehicle number plates changed in the process to avoid ease of recognition even after the drivers may have regained consciousness.

He urged members of the public to key into the Police’s network of strategic surveillance in bursting criminal hideouts by providing timely information on suspected criminals, their movements and operations, stressing that crime control cannot be successful with the efforts of security agencies alone.

According to the Police Commissioner, the Command lost about five officers with several others injured in the process of fighting crime in the past year, even as he revealed that over 133 firearms and other dangerous weapons were recovered during this period.

While noting that the state is an economic hub that involves transborder movement, the Police Chief said intelligence gathering as well as rapid response of security operatives remain the key in furthering crime prevention and control in the state and the country as a whole.