Kano Police Command Arrests 2425 Suspects In 2024,Vows Enhanced Anti-crime Operations
By Abdullahi Yusuf
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,13 kidnapping victims and two abduction 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 carryout massive public enlightenment and sensitization to meet the dynamic security demand of the State,” he said.
