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Dr Shein: Police must dismantle criminal networks
2006-05-25 08:11:08
By Jackson Kalindimya, Moshi
The police should be extra- vigilant in the fight against crime, Vice President, Dr Ali Mohammed Shein said on Tuesday.
He said to weed out crime completely out of the society; the police must dismantle all criminal networks.
’Fighting banditry should not end with the arrest of suspects but rather with dismantling of their networks,’ the vice president said addressing a four-day workshop for high-ranking police officers from both Zanzibar and the mainland.
’In the recent past, incidents of armed robbery have been reported across the regions. The police have done a commendable job but something in addition has to be done.
The police should device modern strategies to counterbalance tricks employed by bandits,’ Dr. Shein said.
He said the government would support the police to increase efficiency by provision of basic facilities like vehicles, training better remunerations and so on.
’You need to be smarter than criminals,’ he said.
He also called on the traffic cops to workout out a common strategy with concerned authorities to find out a lasting solution for traffic jam in Dar es Salaam.
The Minister for Public Safety and Security, Harrith Mwapachu, said he was grateful to the general public for co-operation accorded to the police in exposing criminals.
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Said Mwema, issued a strong warning to all members of the Police Force against revealing informants giving valid information to the police leading to arrest of suspects.
’Anyone discovered to have acted unprofessionally should consider himself or herself fired,’ Mwema said.
Meanwhile, Salome Kitomary of PST reports from Moshi says Vice-President Dr Shein has instructed the traffic police to work more diligently to reduce road accidents.
’Road accidents have been on the increase in recent years, which in turn have increased the number of deaths and permanently incapacitated people due to road carnage,’ he said.
He said the major cause of road carnage was reckless driving and failure to observe traffic rules and regulation.
Citing some records, Dr Shein said that in 2004 alone 1,815 accidents caused 2,366 deaths and injured 17,231 people.
’The situation became worse last year as 2,430 people perished from 2,007 road accidents although the total number of injuries went down to 16,286 compared to the previous year,’ he said.
Between January and March this year 3,960 accidents took place killing about 577 people and injuring 3,710 others, he said.
’This paints a very grim picture of the situation in our roads,’ he said.
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