The study adopted the Clustered, Multi-Stage, Probability Sampling Design while data was collected using personal, face to face interviews. The total sample size of the survey was 2000 and it covered the 20 local government areas (LGA) in Lagos State. 100 respondents were interviewed in each LGA. A representative sample was drawn using probability sampling procedure, thereby neutralizing any known form of bias that may affect the findings of the study. Every respondent within the study locations was given equal and calculable chance of either being included or excluded in the sample. ... Read more

the Youth against Crime (YAC) Project of the CLEEN Foundation focused on mentoring young people in the schools to adopt positive outlook, increasing their participation in problem solving activities in the school and building rapportUIDE between them, their teachers and the police in the community. These were carried out through facilitation of quarterly interactive forums in the schools, where successful and positive role models who grew out of similarly challenged communities to become ... Read more

The increasing spate of human rights abuses and violations by personnel of the Nigeria Police Force has continued to elicit concern among local and international human rights groups, media and general public. Lack of effective internal and external processes and mechanisms for holding police personnel accountable to the communities they serve has been identified as one of the main contributory factors to police abuses and impunity.
The public tribunals were therefore organized to contribute to finding solutions to these problems that plague police work in Nigeria ... Read more

On November 8, 2004, the House of Representatives’ Committee on Police Affairs in collaboration with the CLEEN Foundation and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) organized a one-day interactive forum on review of the 1943 Nigerian Police Act. The objectives of the forum included bringing stakeholders on police and policing in Nigeria to brainstorm and identify priority issues that needed to be reviewed in the Police Act and setting in motion the machinery for the review of the Act. At the end of the highly , .... Read more

In March 2009, the CLEEN Foundation in collaboration with the Ford Foundation organized a two-day national conference on citizenship and identity politics in Nigeria, which brought together stakeholders from security agencies, academia, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), media, government departments and diplomatic community to the capital city of Abuja, to brainstorm and identify measures that could be implemented to address the problems identity-based politics and conflicts have wrought on the Nigerian State. This publication is a compilation of proceedings of the conference.... Read more

The challenges of policing women and children in Nigeria fall within the challenges of policing generally. Women and children have been described to form part of the vulnerable groups of persons that exist within the country. They are said to be vulnerable because the societal framework does not operate in their interest. Nigeria is a patriarchal and adult dominated society.
The Nigeria police force has been tasked with the responsibility of protecting the lives and properties of all citizens and everybody that lives :... Read more