Sullay Kargbo, a community resident at Mamba Ridge at Moeba, has helped built a police police for the community opened by police.

The Habour Police Division, in collaboration with the Local Policing Partnership Board (LPPB) and Moeba Community stakeholders, has on Saturday 7th September 2024, opened up a police post at Mamba Ridge, Moeba Community- Kissy, in the East of Freetown.

The Police Regional Commander – East, Brima Francis Menday, in his keynote address, said the Executive Management Board (EMB) of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) “appreciates the police post construction; and that police operations are no a conventional but police now work with community people.

The police are relying on the company community people for fast information, intelligence on criminal events.

They get news more from civilians and they strengthening  effective policing in communities like Mamba Ridge at Moeba community. It is more the reason for the police synergy between them and the civilians by putting up a post at the area.

He maintained that ‘bad boys’ would run away because of the presence of the police post.

“It is a way of taking policing to the community doorsteps,” he said.

He reiterated that the police post is for the entire Moeba community, not just for Mamba Ridge.

Informing community people that there is zero tolerance on lawlessness, he said, he is advising all to warn their relatives to be law-abiding as the police don’t have a “special blanket to cover any offenders.”

Habour Police Local Unit Commander (LUC), Emmanuel Kpulun, said the Community Service Volunteers (CSVs) are partners in providing security and success in providing law and order in the country and so the community people must change for the better.

He said the SLP is proud that community people have constructed a police post at Mamba Ridge; and that the police would fully support the police post as SLP has changed from being a force to a service.

The main sponsor for the police post construction, Sullay Kargbo, pledged to the community to do more to maintain the police post.

He said lawlessness “is too much in the community, and that some are not happy for the police post.”

The chairperson for the program, Supt. SS Conteh, said the police post takes policing to the community doorsteps as SLP believes in working with civilians.

The Administrative Officer at Harbour Police Station, Sub-Inspector Arnold Caulker, said the purpose of the gathering is to officially hand over the police post to the Moeba Community.

Thanking the sponsors and community stakeholders, he said, the police post belongs to the community people, singling out Sullay Kargbo, the main sponsor for the construction of the police post.

He called on the community people to respect the law and work with the police.

The LPPB chairman, Melbourne Greene, said some will not like to see the police post, but they are ready to police or safeguard the community and whenever they’re called upon.

Other community stakeholders showed appreciation for the police post, and expressed their readiness to work with the police to help maintain law and order in the community.