Social Attitude and Effective Police Crime Management and Control in the Orashi Region of Rivers State
JACKSON, Onome Robinson (PhD); USMAN David Jacob (PhD) and YALWA Abdullahi
JACKSON, Onome Robinson (PhD): Department of Crime Management, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa.
USMAN David Jacob (PhD): College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
YALWA Abdullahi: Department of Crime Management, Abubakar Tatari Polytechnic, Bauchi, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
This study explores influence of social attitude on police effective crime control in the Orashi region of Rivers state. It adopted a mixed methods research design and obtained data primarily using questionnaire and complimented with interview from a sample of 119 participants. The study benefited from other secondary data and a theoretical framework grounded on systems theory. Tables were used in the presentation of data while the SPSS Software was used in running the analysis. Recorded interview was transcribed and summarized and used in supporting quantitative data. The study discovered that 83.3% of participant view Nigeria police as untrustworthy, 96.4% agree that police connive with criminals and 76.5% indicated their unwillingness to report criminal hideouts to the police. The paper recommended among others the need for police reforms, attitudinal change and deployment of new technologies to reduce frequencies of police contact with the public in order to improve police image and hence public positive public attitude for effective collaborative crime control in the Orashi region.
Keywords: Social attitude, Orashi, Police and Crime Control