“One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.”...Ronald Reagan
How America did it?
In today’s America, the criminal record of any individual can be called up instantly over the internet. In 19th century America,
How America did it?
In today’s America, the criminal record of any individual can be called up instantly over the internet. In 19th century America,
it was easy to remain an anonymous criminal; if you became known in
one town, you moved to another. (These conditions are still the case in
Nigeria). This was checked when Inspector Thomas Byrnes
(late-19th-century) of the New York City Police Department expanding on
the works of Alan Pinkerton (1857) popularized the Rogue Gallery.
World over, crime has remained a retrogressive societal element that dampens economical and social growth, ergo crime fighting has over the years evolved in the dynamics of matching prevailing and escalating trends in criminality.
One of such developmental milestone is the ROGUES GALLERY .Originally devised by Alan Pinkerton in 1857 and popularized by Inspector Thomas Byrnes in the Late-19th Century, Rogue Gallery is a police collection of pictures and bio-data of criminals and suspects stored in a centralized system for criminal search and identification purposes.
This database has been effective in America for over 150 Years; it has also metamorphosed to include DNA entries in DNA databases which support forensic research for the cracking of crimes.
Statistics show a clear reduction of the crime rate post implementation of the rogues list
However in a country as great as ours, we are still tied to the counter, the pen and the hardcover notebooks that has seen crime rate hitting the ceilings.
Of the over 15,000 police stations in Nigeria, only the station at Alagbon has some sort of criminals’-data-capture system.
The principal aim of this project is to bring all police stations in the country into a WAN (Wide Area Network) and connect to a centralized Database System where Pictures, biometrics and bio -data of criminals will be captured and stored in real-time. This Project will also swiftly digitalize and integrate all existing manually –captured-data lying all over our police stations.
To improve local criminals’ identification, Byrne created a photo gallery of over 7,000 criminals, and he encouraged his detectives to compare the photos with suspects they were seeking. Byrnes published some of these photos with details of the criminals in Professional Criminals of America (1886). With the arrival of internet and advancements in IT, the Rogues’ Gallery evolved to serve as an online compilation of descriptions, modus operandi, hiding places, and names of criminals and their associates
As highlighted by the Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Command, Mr. Solomon Arase; Technological advancement has moved policing beyond the usual brute force, charge and bail methods. In a recent workshop on ‘Contemporary Policing and Crime Challenges in Akwa Ibom State,’ organised by the Akwa Ibom Police command in collaboration with CLEEN Foundation, Lagos; Arase postulated that “Modern policing is intelligence-driven; this is inevitably so because of the combined factors of globalisation, rapidly advancing technology, increasingly complex dynamics of crime, accountability factors, and the demands for civil and legal compliance in the execution of police functions.”
Therefore the Rogue Gallery Project shall:
• create a database of all suspected criminals in Nigeria (Rogues list)
• archive all booked cases for the last 50 Years
• design and deploy a secure data depositing channel
• install 3 backup data servers
• train the Nigerian Police on how to make full use of the system
• provide the necessary infrastructure to host the data bank
• provide support and maintenance for such a system
• provide the necessary training for the effective utilization of the system
• design and deploy software infrastructure that will act as a portal for accessing stored information and also safeguard against intrusions and attacks
Below is a description to briefly explain how the system works:
Example of a case: data capture system
An individual was picked up in Ibadan for armed robbery charges. On arrival at the police station, his picture, finger print and bio-data were immediately obtained and uploaded onto the server, along with picture (a mug shot) evidence to support his arrest. His information became part of the National data bank. On being granted bail he fled to Abuja where he lived quietly and avoided the law. It wasn’t too long before his knack for law breaking caught up with him and he was apprehended for Kidnapping. The Police men took him to the nearest Police station for processing. Immediately his finger print was scanned, the system showed his prior record and informed the local police station officials that he was wanted on armed robbery charges. He was therefore detained and not granted bail. The system successfully allowed justice to prevail!
To achieve social security in Nigeria, we must harness the deployment of technology. We want a Nigeria free from corruption and social vices. A Nigeria where no man feels threatened by crime, a better Nigeria!
PRESIDENT JONATHAN WILL BE THE BEST LOVED PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA EVER
Great presidents are made great by horrible circumstances combined with character, temperament and intelligence. Like firemen, cops, doctors or soldiers, presidents need a crisis
to shine.President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan took the oath of office on 29 May, 2011 amidst thunderous expectations of a new dawn, given the mountain of problems that characterized the nation.
Jonathan is one of the most intelligent presidents to ever step forward in Nigeria's history the second fully fit university graduate. The likes of his intellectual capabilities have not been surpassed in public life since the Founding Fathers put pen to paper. His personal character is also solid gold. Take heart, Nigeria: we have the leader for our times.
I say this as a Pan Africanist who believes totally in One Nigeria, former life-long siddon look Nigerian. I say this as a proud Nigerian . I speak as someone who knows it's time to forget tribal loyalty, party loyalty, ideology and pride and put the country first.
Jonathan is our last best chance. He's worth laying it all on the line for.
Where many leaders are two-faced; publicly kindly but privately feared and/or hated by people closest to them, Jonathan is consistent in the way he treats people, consistently kind and personally humble. He lives by the code that those who lead must serve. He believes that. He lives it. He lived it long before he was in the public eye.
Jonathan puts service ahead of ideology. He also knows that to succeed politically you need to be tough. He can be. He has been (Okerenkoko and Gbaramatu). This is a man who does what works, rather than scoring ideological points. In other words he is the quintessential non-ideological pragmatic Nigerian. He will (thank God!) disappoint ideologues and purists of the left and the right.
Jonathan has a reservoir of personal physical courage that is unmatched in our presidential history. Why unmatched? Because as the first monority contender for the presidency who has won, Jonathan, and all the rest of us, know that he is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged tribal hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the bowels of our wounded and sinful country. By stepping forward to lead, Jonathan has literally put his life on the line for all of us in a way no other Nigerian ever has had to do. (And we all know how dangerous the presidency has been)
The greater point about Jonathan is that the midst of our worldwide financial meltdown, an expanding Boko Haram ,Niger Delta Militancy,Piracy,Kidnappings,Armed Robberies,Bribery and corruption etc, watching our educational levels decline to unbelievable levels of incompetence, facing a general loss of confidence in the government that has been exacerbated by the opposition doing all they can to undermine our government's capabilities and programs... President Jonathan has taken on the leadership of our country at a make or break time of historic proportions. He faces not one but dozens of crisis, each big enough to define any presidency in better times.
As luck, fate or divine grace would have it (depending on one's personal theology) Jonathan is blessedly, dare I say uniquely, well-suited to our dire circumstances. Jonathan is a person with hands-on experience, deep connections to top advisers from the renowned Universites in Nigeria being a former university lecturer , and a middle-class background that gives him an abiding knowledgeable empathy with the rest of us. As the son of poor parents, who has worked his way up with merit and brains, in three giant political steps to state office, national office and now the presidency, Jonathan clearly has the wit and drive to lead.
Jonathan is the sober voice of reason at a time of unreason. He is the fellow keeping his head while all around him are panicking. He is the healing presence at a time of national division and strife. He is also new enough to the political process so that he doesn't suffer from the terminally jaded cynicism, the seen-it-all-before syndrome afflicting most politicians in Nigeria. In that regard we Nigerians lucked out. It's as if having despaired of our political process we picked a name from the phone book to lead us and that person turned out to be a very man we needed.
Jonathan brings a healing and uplifting spiritual quality to our politics at the very time when our worst enemy is fear. Fearless Jonathan is the cure. He speaks a litany of hope rather than a litany of terror.
As we have watched Jonathan respond in a quiet reasoned manner to crisis after crisis, in both the way he has responded after being attacked and lied about , to his reasoned response to our multiplying national crises, what we see is the spirit of a trusted family doctor with a great bedside manner. Jonathan is perfectly suited to hold our hand and lead us through some very tough times. The word panic is not in the Jonathan dictionary.
Jonathan brings a moral clarity to his leadership reserved for those who have had to work for everything they've gotten and had to do twice as well as the person standing next to them because of the region they come from . His experience of succeeding in spite of his social background could have been embittering or one that fostered a spiritual rebirth of forgiveness and enlightenment. Jonathan radiates the calm inner peace of the spirit of forgiveness.
Speaking as a believing Nigerian I see the hand of a merciful God in Jonathans Presidency. The biblical metaphors abound. The stone the builder rejected is become the cornerstone... the last shall be first... he that would gain his life must first lose it... the meek shall inherit the earth...
For my secular friends I'll allow that we may have just been extraordinarily lucky! Either way Nigeria wins.
Only a brilliant man, with the spirit of a preacher and the humble heart of a kindly family doctor can lead us now. We are afraid, out of ideas, and worst of all out of hope. Jonathan is the cure. And we Nigerian's have it in us to rise to the occasion. We will. We're in one of the most frightening periods of Nigerian history. Our country has rarely faced more uncertainty. This is the time for greatness. We have a great leader. We must be a great people backing him, fighting for him, sacrificing for a cause greater than ourselves.
A hundred years from now Jonathan's portrait will be placed next to that of Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe,King Jaja Of Opobo,Ahmadu Bello and Nana Of Itsekiri etc. Long before that we'll be telling our children and grandchildren that we stepped out in faith and supported a man who stood up and led our country back from the brink of an abyss. We'll tell them about the power of love, faith and hope. We'll tell them about the power of creativity combined with humility and intellectual brilliance. We'll tell them that President Jonathan gave us the gift of regaining our faith in our country. We'll tell them that we all stood up and pitched in and won the day. We'll tell them that President Jonathan restored our standing in the world. We'll tell them that by the time he left office our schools were on the mend, our economy booming.
We'll tell them that because of President Jonathan's example and leadership the integrity of the family was restored, divorce rates went down, more fathers took responsibility for their children, and abortion rates fell dramatically as women, families and children were cared for through compassionate social programs that worked. We'll tell them about how the gap closed between the middle class and the super rich, how we won health care for all, how crime rates fell, how kidnappings, militancy and terrorism were brought to an honourable conclusion.
We'll tell them that we were part of the inexplicably blessed miracle that happened to our country those many years ago in 2011 when an Ijaw man was sent by God, fate or luck to save our country. We'll tell them that it's good to live in Nigeria where anything is possible.
World over, crime has remained a retrogressive societal element that dampens economical and social growth, ergo crime fighting has over the years evolved in the dynamics of matching prevailing and escalating trends in criminality.
One of such developmental milestone is the ROGUES GALLERY .Originally devised by Alan Pinkerton in 1857 and popularized by Inspector Thomas Byrnes in the Late-19th Century, Rogue Gallery is a police collection of pictures and bio-data of criminals and suspects stored in a centralized system for criminal search and identification purposes.
This database has been effective in America for over 150 Years; it has also metamorphosed to include DNA entries in DNA databases which support forensic research for the cracking of crimes.
Statistics show a clear reduction of the crime rate post implementation of the rogues list
However in a country as great as ours, we are still tied to the counter, the pen and the hardcover notebooks that has seen crime rate hitting the ceilings.
Of the over 15,000 police stations in Nigeria, only the station at Alagbon has some sort of criminals’-data-capture system.
The principal aim of this project is to bring all police stations in the country into a WAN (Wide Area Network) and connect to a centralized Database System where Pictures, biometrics and bio -data of criminals will be captured and stored in real-time. This Project will also swiftly digitalize and integrate all existing manually –captured-data lying all over our police stations.
To improve local criminals’ identification, Byrne created a photo gallery of over 7,000 criminals, and he encouraged his detectives to compare the photos with suspects they were seeking. Byrnes published some of these photos with details of the criminals in Professional Criminals of America (1886). With the arrival of internet and advancements in IT, the Rogues’ Gallery evolved to serve as an online compilation of descriptions, modus operandi, hiding places, and names of criminals and their associates
As highlighted by the Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Command, Mr. Solomon Arase; Technological advancement has moved policing beyond the usual brute force, charge and bail methods. In a recent workshop on ‘Contemporary Policing and Crime Challenges in Akwa Ibom State,’ organised by the Akwa Ibom Police command in collaboration with CLEEN Foundation, Lagos; Arase postulated that “Modern policing is intelligence-driven; this is inevitably so because of the combined factors of globalisation, rapidly advancing technology, increasingly complex dynamics of crime, accountability factors, and the demands for civil and legal compliance in the execution of police functions.”
Therefore the Rogue Gallery Project shall:
• create a database of all suspected criminals in Nigeria (Rogues list)
• archive all booked cases for the last 50 Years
• design and deploy a secure data depositing channel
• install 3 backup data servers
• train the Nigerian Police on how to make full use of the system
• provide the necessary infrastructure to host the data bank
• provide support and maintenance for such a system
• provide the necessary training for the effective utilization of the system
• design and deploy software infrastructure that will act as a portal for accessing stored information and also safeguard against intrusions and attacks
Below is a description to briefly explain how the system works:
Example of a case: data capture system
An individual was picked up in Ibadan for armed robbery charges. On arrival at the police station, his picture, finger print and bio-data were immediately obtained and uploaded onto the server, along with picture (a mug shot) evidence to support his arrest. His information became part of the National data bank. On being granted bail he fled to Abuja where he lived quietly and avoided the law. It wasn’t too long before his knack for law breaking caught up with him and he was apprehended for Kidnapping. The Police men took him to the nearest Police station for processing. Immediately his finger print was scanned, the system showed his prior record and informed the local police station officials that he was wanted on armed robbery charges. He was therefore detained and not granted bail. The system successfully allowed justice to prevail!
To achieve social security in Nigeria, we must harness the deployment of technology. We want a Nigeria free from corruption and social vices. A Nigeria where no man feels threatened by crime, a better Nigeria!
PRESIDENT JONATHAN WILL BE THE BEST LOVED PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA EVER
Great presidents are made great by horrible circumstances combined with character, temperament and intelligence. Like firemen, cops, doctors or soldiers, presidents need a crisis
to shine.President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan took the oath of office on 29 May, 2011 amidst thunderous expectations of a new dawn, given the mountain of problems that characterized the nation.
Jonathan is one of the most intelligent presidents to ever step forward in Nigeria's history the second fully fit university graduate. The likes of his intellectual capabilities have not been surpassed in public life since the Founding Fathers put pen to paper. His personal character is also solid gold. Take heart, Nigeria: we have the leader for our times.
I say this as a Pan Africanist who believes totally in One Nigeria, former life-long siddon look Nigerian. I say this as a proud Nigerian . I speak as someone who knows it's time to forget tribal loyalty, party loyalty, ideology and pride and put the country first.
Jonathan is our last best chance. He's worth laying it all on the line for.
Where many leaders are two-faced; publicly kindly but privately feared and/or hated by people closest to them, Jonathan is consistent in the way he treats people, consistently kind and personally humble. He lives by the code that those who lead must serve. He believes that. He lives it. He lived it long before he was in the public eye.
Jonathan puts service ahead of ideology. He also knows that to succeed politically you need to be tough. He can be. He has been (Okerenkoko and Gbaramatu). This is a man who does what works, rather than scoring ideological points. In other words he is the quintessential non-ideological pragmatic Nigerian. He will (thank God!) disappoint ideologues and purists of the left and the right.
Jonathan has a reservoir of personal physical courage that is unmatched in our presidential history. Why unmatched? Because as the first monority contender for the presidency who has won, Jonathan, and all the rest of us, know that he is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged tribal hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the bowels of our wounded and sinful country. By stepping forward to lead, Jonathan has literally put his life on the line for all of us in a way no other Nigerian ever has had to do. (And we all know how dangerous the presidency has been)
The greater point about Jonathan is that the midst of our worldwide financial meltdown, an expanding Boko Haram ,Niger Delta Militancy,Piracy,Kidnappings,Armed Robberies,Bribery and corruption etc, watching our educational levels decline to unbelievable levels of incompetence, facing a general loss of confidence in the government that has been exacerbated by the opposition doing all they can to undermine our government's capabilities and programs... President Jonathan has taken on the leadership of our country at a make or break time of historic proportions. He faces not one but dozens of crisis, each big enough to define any presidency in better times.
As luck, fate or divine grace would have it (depending on one's personal theology) Jonathan is blessedly, dare I say uniquely, well-suited to our dire circumstances. Jonathan is a person with hands-on experience, deep connections to top advisers from the renowned Universites in Nigeria being a former university lecturer , and a middle-class background that gives him an abiding knowledgeable empathy with the rest of us. As the son of poor parents, who has worked his way up with merit and brains, in three giant political steps to state office, national office and now the presidency, Jonathan clearly has the wit and drive to lead.
Jonathan is the sober voice of reason at a time of unreason. He is the fellow keeping his head while all around him are panicking. He is the healing presence at a time of national division and strife. He is also new enough to the political process so that he doesn't suffer from the terminally jaded cynicism, the seen-it-all-before syndrome afflicting most politicians in Nigeria. In that regard we Nigerians lucked out. It's as if having despaired of our political process we picked a name from the phone book to lead us and that person turned out to be a very man we needed.
Jonathan brings a healing and uplifting spiritual quality to our politics at the very time when our worst enemy is fear. Fearless Jonathan is the cure. He speaks a litany of hope rather than a litany of terror.
As we have watched Jonathan respond in a quiet reasoned manner to crisis after crisis, in both the way he has responded after being attacked and lied about , to his reasoned response to our multiplying national crises, what we see is the spirit of a trusted family doctor with a great bedside manner. Jonathan is perfectly suited to hold our hand and lead us through some very tough times. The word panic is not in the Jonathan dictionary.
Jonathan brings a moral clarity to his leadership reserved for those who have had to work for everything they've gotten and had to do twice as well as the person standing next to them because of the region they come from . His experience of succeeding in spite of his social background could have been embittering or one that fostered a spiritual rebirth of forgiveness and enlightenment. Jonathan radiates the calm inner peace of the spirit of forgiveness.
Speaking as a believing Nigerian I see the hand of a merciful God in Jonathans Presidency. The biblical metaphors abound. The stone the builder rejected is become the cornerstone... the last shall be first... he that would gain his life must first lose it... the meek shall inherit the earth...
For my secular friends I'll allow that we may have just been extraordinarily lucky! Either way Nigeria wins.
Only a brilliant man, with the spirit of a preacher and the humble heart of a kindly family doctor can lead us now. We are afraid, out of ideas, and worst of all out of hope. Jonathan is the cure. And we Nigerian's have it in us to rise to the occasion. We will. We're in one of the most frightening periods of Nigerian history. Our country has rarely faced more uncertainty. This is the time for greatness. We have a great leader. We must be a great people backing him, fighting for him, sacrificing for a cause greater than ourselves.
A hundred years from now Jonathan's portrait will be placed next to that of Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe,King Jaja Of Opobo,Ahmadu Bello and Nana Of Itsekiri etc. Long before that we'll be telling our children and grandchildren that we stepped out in faith and supported a man who stood up and led our country back from the brink of an abyss. We'll tell them about the power of love, faith and hope. We'll tell them about the power of creativity combined with humility and intellectual brilliance. We'll tell them that President Jonathan gave us the gift of regaining our faith in our country. We'll tell them that we all stood up and pitched in and won the day. We'll tell them that President Jonathan restored our standing in the world. We'll tell them that by the time he left office our schools were on the mend, our economy booming.
We'll tell them that because of President Jonathan's example and leadership the integrity of the family was restored, divorce rates went down, more fathers took responsibility for their children, and abortion rates fell dramatically as women, families and children were cared for through compassionate social programs that worked. We'll tell them about how the gap closed between the middle class and the super rich, how we won health care for all, how crime rates fell, how kidnappings, militancy and terrorism were brought to an honourable conclusion.
We'll tell them that we were part of the inexplicably blessed miracle that happened to our country those many years ago in 2011 when an Ijaw man was sent by God, fate or luck to save our country. We'll tell them that it's good to live in Nigeria where anything is possible.
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