Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone Nine, Hassan Karma, has revealed the security strategies to tackle crime within the zone.

Karma listed the plans to include bringing the police closer to the people, policing with integrity and adopting professionalism among others, warning that the era of people committing crime in a state and migrating to another state in an attempt to flee from justice was over.

He told a gathering that the Nigeria Police Force had deployed check and balances across Nigeria, to curtail crime, saying efficient crime management had been adopted, as the focal point in community policing.

According to him, he is devising amenable ways of establishing and maintaining mutual trust between the citizenry and the police, reiterating that crime would not be tolerated anymore within the zone and warned that anybody found wanting, regardless of his or her status, would not go unpunished.

He was speaking at a gathering in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.