A security consultant, Dickson Osajie, has called for the installation of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) systems in all correctional facilities in the country owing to the spate of jail breaks in Nigeria.
Osajie spoke on Wednesday’s edition of Channels Television’s The Morning Brief after 16 inmates escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
“The Nigerian prison facilities, we need to know if they have CCTV monitoring systems in place. CCTV plays a role in psychological deterrence,” he told the breakfast show crew.
“If these criminals are aware they are being monitored by CCTV systems, they will not take a step to carry out prison break activities. So, for the most part, they need to have the CCTV in place and have officers monitor it live.”
Osajie questioned how inmates could escape while officers were on duty and called for the need for technological surveillance, noting that every prison should have a control room to monitor all activities in real time.
“If we have a prison facility, we must have a control room in place that will monitor everything going on in the prison facility. Where are the technological systems to send a signal to the control room?” the Managing Director of DBreeze Protection Service asked.
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He said the recent jailbreak is proof that the current system has been breached, stating, “The crime has been committed, the escape has been committed, and that tells you that your security system has been defeated, and when your security system is defeated, you need to come on board and reassess.
“What we need to start looking at is the training of the correctional facility officers, let them understand and look within.”
He proposed that every prison facility should operate with “the concentric cycle of protection which has to do with three zones the outer zone, the middle zone, the inner zone because for a prisoner or for an inmate to escape, he must have passed through these zones from the inner zone where they are kept to the middle zone where you have the administrative blocks and to the outer zone before you can escape.”
Osajie wondered, “why these guys escape like that as if they are living in a bungalow or two-bedroom flat.
Source: Channels TV
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