Juja OCS Luke Odiwuor has called on area residents to enhance their good relationship with the police and security officers to ensure they tame crimes in the area.
Odiwuor said that the members of public have been watching silently as the criminals intensify their illegal operations and thereafter blaming the police for laxity.
He added that by giving a blind eye to crime, the people only made the situation worse, thus exposing themselves further to being the next victims to these crimes.
Odiwuor lamented the poor flow of information to the relevant security organs that was deterring the fight against crime. He called on all the registered groups and associations as well as elected leaders in Thika to meet his security team so that they could deliberate on the way forward.
"Ona-sema, Sikia-sema should be what every resident should do in order to rid off these criminal elements amongst ourselves. The police and these chiefs cannot be everywhere. It is your duty to report those we suspect amongst us to them so proper steps can be taken to ensure your own safety," he said.
He called on all landlords to cooperate with authorities by revealing to them the occupants of their rental houses whenever they were requested to do so by the authorities.
Failure to do this only exposed themselves and their law abiding tenants to the wrath of these criminals.