The Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba has ordered the immediate withdrawal of identity cards currently used by members of the Police Community Relations Committees, PCRC across the country.

The force spokesman, CP Emmanuel Ojukwu made this known in a statement made available to our reporter in which he said the action was to checkmate the illegal proliferation of the identity cards by some criminally minded elements.

Ojukwu said the IGP held an all-important meeting with the leadership of the PCRC across the country during which Abba was said to have admonished the members to reinvigorate the tenets of the committee and deepen the community policing.

“The IGP admonished the Leadership to re-invigorate the tenets of the PCRC Nationwide, in order to deepen the concept of Community Policing, a veritable instrument in achieving the mission statements of the current Police Leadership,” he said

The police spokesman who said that some persons were impersonating as members of the PCRC said a newly designed PCRC ID card will be issued to authentic members soonest.