Police authorities in Yei River County of South Sudan's Central Equatoria State plan to introduce community policing to curb rising insecurity and protect the lives and property in the county.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Thursday, county police inspector Sabino Dominic Tobo said the move is aimed at reducing the crime rate within the county.
"Why we are forming the community policing is because they will be stationed in the residential areas to curb crimes since the civilians are also much involved in committing crimes in the community, coordinate with the head office and with that, after a year, Yei will be free from crimes and have peace," he said.
Dominic says the chiefs have been tasked with creating the committees and strengthening relations between civilians and the police.
"We have alerted the chiefs because I met them in their areas so that they form the community policing committees so that they be available in the area and that we have a relationship with them," he said. "Because we lack enough police, but to build a close relationship with the civilians in the areas there, will curb crimes because our committee in the area will do police work."
The police officer said one of the main challenges facing the police is the lack of vehicles to facilitate their work across the county.