Let’s Fight Crime and Traffic Accident Together
According to Ethiopian criminal law stipulation 23 number 1, crime means the disaster faces human life, property and government because of destruction or crime committed by people. Preventing crime means investigation of a crime before its occurrence, gathering information from the community and interpreting the information, organizing,emphasizing the target of the crime that is going to be happened, invaliding and preventing before it happened.
Likewise, crime prevention means impeding a crime before of its happening and when sees it in the view of police work preventing crime means making community to participate by organizing them in peace and security structure and gathering information from people and preventing crime before its commission by using the information of community. Crime can be prevented if people participate widely by understanding the impact of crime on people, government, property and human life. So, crime can be prevented by police and all peace and security structure. In this the participation of people is irreplaceable role.
Police cannot prevent crime without being with community participation. If we see how crime can be prevented, by identifying the place where traffic accident and crime can occur and making investigation on it by participating community on preventing crime. Community’s participation is necessary in preventing and controlling traffic accident and crime. It is impossible even to think to prevent traffic accident and crime without community participation. If crime is not controlled, there is no superiority of law; the crime commission will be abundant on human life, property and government and the traffic accident as well. Likewise, Law will be corrupted, there will no democracy, economy and development will fail, the existence of the country and government will be in question, there will be the movement of people from place to place illegally while legal people miss everything. There will no movement in peace, there will not work and live. Especially the crime will be hard for women and children, poverty will be increased, there willno thinking for democracy, development and country’s prosperity if there is no peace.
Thus, Oromia police commission is working on producing police force those have responsibility for the rule of law, can be shield for their community and have democratic view by teaching community policing since its establishment. The core message of Oromia police commission is that people and community should work together in order to build sustainable peace and security to ensure the democracy that can accelerate the development of the country.