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I received with joy the congratulatory messages from the management of Smithdown Primary School Liverpool England, for the successfully launched impactful book in UK. This has added to the growing numbers of institutional appreciation and celebration of birth of my book in which I developed Ochamalienwu Theory of Community Policing, with the mandate to contribute towards prevention and control of crime problem as well as threat of global terrorism. I received the message from the Head-Teacher of the School Mr Phil Horne today, following the end of the Governors Appeal Panel hearing meeting at the School, which I privileged served. The message was also published in the school’s weekly newsletter.
‘Aminu Audu; Congratulations to our parent governor Aminu. He has recently has a book published: ‘Police Corruption and Community Policing in Nigeria: A Sociological Case Study’. Smithdown Primary School is a public institution run by the Liverpool City Council of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
On behalf of myself and family, I sincerely thank the school management and the governing body for this honour and appreciation of efforts as this would spur me for further selfless endeavours.
I was elected Parent governor to the Board of Governors of the School in January 2016; serving on the Finance Building and Staff Committee; Staff Recruitment Panel; Governors Appeal Panel and was commended for role as Link Governor that helped the School achieved Sanctury status in UK etc, contributing to learning and teaching experience of young people and children in England and by extension, offering me opportunity to gain useful experience of governance of public sector Britain.
By estimates, apart from the global dimension of its distributions and sales, at least about five million copies of my new book ‘Police Corruption and Community Policing in Nigeria: A Sociological Case Study’ Lewiston &Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press(408 pages) are urgently required to meet the immediate needs for the teaching, learning and practice of community policing in Nigeria alone. With the introduction of community policing in the curriculum by the National Universities Commission of Nigeria this year, my new book ‘Police Corruption and community policing in Nigeria:A Sociological Case Study’ in which I developed OCHAMALIENWU THEORY OF COMMUNITY POLICING is a ready made material for teaching and learning of community policing in Universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria and beyond. What a coincidence! Though this positive development is in line with one of numerous recommendations of my thesis produced in 2016 as one of strategies for implementation of community policing in Nigeria. Secondary schools should equally key into it.
Stakeholders such as governments, security agents, education providers and scholars, students, policy makers, individuals and corporate organisations in Nigeria should strive harder to prevail on publisher in the USA and UK to order for sufficient copies. The global appeal of the book is amazing and unprecedented. Verily, my aim to improve understanding for the greatest benefit of humanity has been achieved! The world cannot be the same again.
Professor Sandra Walklate’s Commendatory Forward to the book noted that:
‘…However the importance of work like this goes beyond pointing out the mistakes of failing to think through the implications of this kind of policy transfer processes. It touches on the profound implications that the dominance of Northern hegemonic theorising, policies and practices, has for those locations subjected to such hegemonic practices. Consequently its findings will be of interest not only to policy makers and police forces considering the possibilities of community policing, it will also be of interest to, and will add to, the growing voices within the social sciences in general, but criminology in particular, raising concerns about Northern theorising and its consequences.
The findings presented here reach out to a range of audiences and the uniqueness of this work deserves to be read by all those interested in policing, community policing and the pitfalls and possibilities of policy transfer’.
Professor Sandra Walklate, BA; M.tt.; FAcSS; is the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool UK; Coinjoint Chair of Criminology Monash University, Australia and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology.
Again, Professor Colin Rogers, in his open-sponsoring review describes the book as monograph, quite well referenced, contributes additional information to scholarship, author’s argument is c’ogent’, with informative chapters and sub-heads, recommended for ‘students’, ‘Quite a succinct abstract-there is very little research on community policing in emerging societies so this is to be welcomed’.
Colin Rogers is a world leading Professor of Policing and Law Enforcement at Charles Sturt University Manly New South Wales Australia and Chair of the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales United Kingdom and the Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing Journal.
– Phil Horne
Head Teacher.
Please Check the links below for the comprehensive details of the aforementioned Research work and book.
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