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As banditry and kidnappings continue to worsen in parts of the country, the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS) has advocated production of City Crime Map to enable security agents to track locations, entry and exit points of criminals.
NIS President, Alabo Charlesye David Charles, stated this in Awka, Anambra State yesterday in continuation of the 54th NIS Conference with the theme: National Mapping Infrastructure and Geospatial Technologies for Monitoring Disasters for Sustainable Development.
Charles noted that deployment of the mapping and surveillance devices would help security operatives to track the hoodlums, adding that a City Crime Map should be the prerogative of every city.
He stated that technology, which has aided and simplified surveyors’ work, also created a room for its bastardisation by technology-biased and literate persons, saying that a surveyor easily identifies fake work from professional job.
“Surveyors are using the annual conference to invite Nigerians to tell them that we have the expertise and facilities to deliver and we still make maps, but we are rebranding so as to apply geo-data information to everyday life and development,” he stated.
State Chairman of NIS, Surveyor Chux Nzomiwu, demanded the involvement of surveyors in tackling flood adversely affecting the state, pointing out that surveyors were needed in all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).