An Assessment on the Roles of Nigerian Police Force in Detecting and Preventing Crime in Fagge LGA

Abstract

With the recent upsurge of crime creating state of insecurity in the society, there is need for a study to find out what is responsible for and who are competent to combat crime in the society. In any existing society, there are rules and regulations that are enacted to check the behavior of those living in such society. Existing along, there are specialized agents, who are charged with the responsibilities of ensuring that law and order is maintained.The research is set to assess the roles of Nigerian police force in detecting and preventing crime, and determine the process and method used in detecting and prevention of crime, it also to assess the problems facing Nigeria police force when discharging their duty. This study adopted quantitative research method, while questionnaire was used to gathered information (data) from the respondents. The findings of the research shown that crime prevail in the area as a result of inability of the police force to discharge their duty effectively as such it recommended that the provision of adequate sophisticated facilities is needed to combat crime in the area which the majority of the research findings shown that lack of adequate facilities were the reasons of their ineffectiveness in the process of crime operation, the work covered the period of three years (2015 2018).