Police Give Update on National Security
The Sierra Leone Police Force (SLP) on Tuesday August 7th held a meeting at their George Street HQ, Freetown, with the media to update them on the state of security in the nation.
Speaking on this issue Director of Operations, Assistant Inspector General of Police Al-Sheik Kamara said Sierra Leone is currently ranked 52nd in the recent Global Peace Ranking Index amongst a total of 158 countries in the world. The AIG said this new development is a pointer that the security of this nation is in safe hands; he thanked the media and other state institutions for having modeled this developmental milestone in the nation’s security.
Speaking on the spate of rampant robbery which used to be the quid pro in the recent past, AIG Philip E.B. Wellington in charge of Freetown Western Area, explained that the SLP have currently charged three notorious armed robbers in the person of Edmond Kanu alias (Virgin Boy), Mohamed Lamin Kargbo alias (Paper), and Alpha Kargbo alias (Nongo) whom he said were caught with pistol revolvers as exhibit.
AIG Wellington went further to give updates on the current rowdy and ugly behavior of a certain set of students at Fourah Bay College, noting that as he spoke, currently some set of students had gone to attack the college warden officer. He noted that the 22 students of whom claimed they were arbitrarily arrested, was untrue and baseless; the AIG maintained that they effected arrest after all security options to restore back sanity at the institution proved futile. He explained that officers of the law were pelted with stones as the marauding students went mad in their protest.
He noted further that a few media outlets got the story wrong in pointing fingers against some of the senior police officers of treating the issue with levity.
Also speaking on the issue, Chief of the Criminal and Investigations Department, (CID), Alfred Karrow Kamara, further gave update on the total number of cases of multiple registrations petitioned by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) under the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) process. Mr. Kamara said out of a total number of 794 cases his department has charged 69 to the court of law to face speedy trials, he also noted that 724 cases are pending and currently under investigation.
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